Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among commodities that rose in price were most of the metals. Copper soared from 13? a pound in early 1914 to 35? in 1917. But as wheat, sugar and copper went up, cotton (little of which was used for gun cotton) fell from 13? a pound to 8? in six months. Coffee and tobacco followed the price pattern set by cotton. Cotton piled up in U. S. warehouses, coffee clogged the docks of Santos in Brazil...
Holland, which had access to the sea, was never close to starvation. But the British, fearful that the Dutch would pass goods on to Germany, limited Dutch imports. Dutch exports of bulbs and diamonds fell along with needed imports. Meat exports increased in 1914 and 1915, dropped in 1916 and 1917 as Germany ran out of gold. Shipping was the great Dutch source of profit during the war; even though submarines and mines sank 199.975 tons of Dutch shipping, the total merchant tonnage of The Netherlands increased from 1,297,409 to 1.574,000 between...
...exchange of goods with the Central Powers by the closing of the Dardanelles, approached crisis before she threw in her lot with the Allies. The peasants-a great majority of the population in each country-unable to buy industrial goods, finally ceased to produce crops for the market, practically fell back on subsistence farming...
...Once the trephining of the skull was over . . . my mood underwent a change. There was a sound of pumping and draining and I could hear the drip, drip of a liquid. Although my brain didn't hurt at all, it did hurt me when one of the instruments fell on to the glass with a sharp, metallic sound. A certain idea passing through my mind hurt me too. It had nothing to do with my present situation...
...crop island, St. Croix was hard hit when the bottom fell out of the raw sugar market and Crucians could no longer buy corn meal and salt fish to keep their fungee pots going. But relief cards, at first ignored as a white man's joke, soon brought an unprecedented prosperity. The Negroes, given canned goods, traded them for rations they liked better, for bright flimsy dresses, dime-store jewelry, tobacco...