Word: falling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...millionth Buick was produced in the fall...
...Treasury does not expect "cheaper" money for some months. Last week the Treasury made public the fact that it was considering the plan of selling non-interest-bearing Treasury bills. These securities would be offered to the public not quarterly but as the Government needed money. They would fall due at income tax dates or other times when the Government expected to be able to pay them off. They would have to be sold below par and the difference between the purchase and redemption values would constitute the interest yield. This system is now used by the British Government...
...wearing corsets within which were fastened hot water bottles containing whiskey. The charge was illegal transportation. ¶ One of Mr. Lament's former A. A. P. A. associates was Banker Charles H. Sabin of Manhattan. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin,- Republican National Committeewoman from New York, campaigned last fall for Mr. Hoover, saying that she believed his election would be the most practical way of securing Modification. What she thinks* of the President's becoming the rallying point of the Drys is not known but last week she resigned as Committeewoman, saying only that she had served ten years...
Ganna Walska d'Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick last fall entered the U.S. bringing 15 trunkfuls of personal effects which she valued at two million dollars. She declined to pay duty, on the ground that she was a nonresident U.S. citizen whose home is in Paris. Unsympathetic customs officials impounded her baggage, declaring that a wife's residence was with her husband, and that Harold Fowler McCormick lives in Chicago (TIME...
...play should be still more so, George Rosener has written one about three men and a maid. Subtly done it might not have been bad, but Mr. Rosener apparently wrote it with a sledgehammer, and the cast plays it through a megaphone. The Earth Between. The latest play to fall into the hands of the experimental Provincetown Playhouse group is agricultural in background but cannot exactly be said to solve the problem of farm relief. It is a harrowing study of a widowed farmer and his almost maniacal desire to hold, against odds of youth and love, his young daughter...