Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this unhappy situation were not obscure. In December, 1926, leading U. S. tire manufacturers formed the American rubber pool, proceeded during the next year to accumulate a great supply at prices ranging from 35 to 41? a pound. But last February, the price of crude rubber broke sharply, fell to 26.9? in March, 17.2? in April, stood last week just under 20?. Large tire companies took a staggering loss on their inventories. Tire prices fell to meet fierce competition from mail order houses and small dealers who had not accumulated a rubber reserve...
...Cook County's check for $84.62. The owner, identified by the paunchy landlord, was Abe Wise. This Jew locked his bedroom door, touched his "gat" fondly, but offered Marry the hospitality of excellent bootleg, and introduced Josephine Ruska of the husky voice and dark caressing eyes. Marry fell promptly in love, and as promptly forgot the mysterious Jew. Long evenings he spent in the park loving Josephine's cooing chatter and warm caresses. Long days he tramped the streets bearing his optimistic letter of recommendation from the small town paper. Big town papers, unimpressed, turned him down...
...This is one of the by-products of prosperity with which we have not learned to dal." Warned the wise Cleveland Trust Co.: "Clearly a reform is needed in New York banking practice." Screamed the financial writers, sensationally: "Boot leg Loans! Outlaw Banking!" Depressed, discouraged, the bond market fell to 98.29, the year's new low. But the stockmarket, still optimistic, held its own, advanced a little...
...high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant (1916), and a restful flirtation with a traveled gentleman, until finally she contracts a commonplace marriage with the silent man who had loved her all along. Adventures with football star, hearty marine and grey-haired oldster fell drably short of the tales of knights and ladies, her childhood favorites. But, after all, the lady, though golden-haired, was a stenographer. Author Weaver* still writes New Yorkese correctly, effectively. But he pieces it out with stilted paragraphs of unlikely philosophy and extraneous sophisticated opinion...
...aeronautics, tipped a gilded bottle, allowed a stream of liquid air to cascade over the bow of Germany's new giant dirigible; 763 feet long, 102 feet wide, the 117th dirigible built at Friedrichshafen, and the first to be honored with a christening party. Two strips of canvas fell from the hull, revealed the name "Graf Zeppelin." Countess Hella shrilled: "Mit Glueck, Graf Zeppelin...