Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many people to follow him lest it collapse. ¶ On returning to White Court, Mr. Coolidge found Secretary of State Kellogg and Assistant Secretary Grew waiting for him on the piazza, where they had been sitting for an hour and a quarter. At once, all three fell to a two and a half hour conference on the state of Chinese affairs (see CHINA...
During the year, $2,307,041,400 of U. S. bonds, notes and Treasury certificates fell due. Because of debt retirements, only $1,882,167,000 had to be sold to pay off those falling due; and, in issuing the new securities, the Government lowered the average rate of interest from 4.446% to 3.557%-which of itself will produce an annual saving of nearly...
...budget was originally planned by Senator Etienne Clementel, Premier Herriot's Finance Minister (TIME, Oct. 13), but the Herriot Government fell (TIME, Apr. 20) before it was voted. When Joseph Caillaux stepped into Senator Clementel's shoes, he had to reconstruct the budget. The budget...
...effort to counteract the stream of propaganda launched by Abd-el-Krim, supreme commander of the Riffs, who last week fell from a mule and broke a leg, Sultan Mulai Yusef ordered investigation of the tribes faithful to himself...
...many years the Southern R. R. paid no dividends on its non-cumulative preferred stock or on its common. Meanwhile, with the development of the Southern states, the great Southern carrier fell heir to greater and greater amounts of freight. Profits were garnered and plowed into better equipment and right of way, with the result that operating costs fell rapidly. Presently, earnings on the common became noticeably great, and dividends were suddenly declared on the 5% non-cumulative preferred, and then, at the same rate, on the common. The rise in the latter stock has proved one of the sensations...