Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caillaux's attempt to retire between 15 and 20 billion francs of short term "defense bonds" by a 4% "gold loan" (TIME, July 6) has fallen dismally short of expectations. The 67 billion francs of outstanding short term paper has been reduced by less than 5 billion instead of 20. In the event of a panic on these securities, the Treasury and the Bank of France would almost certainly have to take refuge in inflation, which might send the franc crashing to infinitesimals...
...sovereign event. As a corollary of this, Noel Coward, playwright and actor, is the week's first personality. Mr. Coward is only 25. He will have, before the season shuts up for the summer, five produced plays in town?Still Life (called Hay Fever in London), Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels, The Vortex and most of Chariot's Revue. In the latter will be sung his famous lyric, "We Must All Be Very Kind to Aunty Jessie...
...matter of fact the hue and cry over a "bread trust" has fallen rather flat, despite Mr. Manly's | vigorous assertions. A huge number of U. S. housewives still bake their own bread, and this will always be a ready alternative to buying of an extortionate "bread trust...
Production rate in the basic industries during July was 2% over June and 20% over July, 1924, and there is little doubt that August has maintained this favorable showing. While crop production generally has fallen off, agricultural prices are up considerably, and rural prosperity in most parts of the country seems assured. Freight traffic in the railroads is both heavy and profitable. Lastly, retail sales have held up unusually well over the summer...
...town. "I would hate and loathe myself, if I could stand in the presence of such sights as I saw in the dance halls and not find myself stirred with wrath, and if my cheeks did not grow with hot shame, not merely that the human race had fallen so low in its tastes, but that men, for the sake of dirty gain, should be thus permitted to prostitute youth and to put a mortgage of immorality upon the coming generations...