Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago President Hoover and that pallid, ascetic German Chancellor, Dr. Heinrich Brüning, were both pursuing the same policy: Deflation. That winter German prices fell 10%. hammered down -so the German people believe-by Dr. Brüning's implacable ''Price Dictator," Dr. Karl Gördeler...
...blood stream. It collects worn-out blood cells, breaks them up and sends the debris to the liver. Marvin Goodman's spleen, ten times oversize, destroyed his red blood cells with mad indiscrimination. As a result, he became anemic. His skin turned yellow, then green. His weight fell from 150 lb. to 90 lb. in six months. He obviously was dying of hemolytic jaundice...
While there is enough opposition to the Roosevelt policies to provide the Post with a substantial following for Page No. 22, it is also true that most of the U. S. remains earnestly behind the New Deal. The Satevepost's outbursts fell on many an unfriendly ear. Result: rumbling rumors. As far back as last April it was whispered that the Post's sudden vitality was costing it dearly in circulation. Gossip said that Editor Lorimer and his aides, Caret Garrett, Samuel Blythe, Frank Condon and Harry Leon Wilson, had slipped quietly away to Palm Springs, Calif. for a lengthy...
...different was the story of the concessionaires. On the basis of the amazing success of a few concessions like the Streets of Paris in 1933, they fairly fell over each other to obtain space in 1934?only to lose their shirts. Yet the Fair's shrewd management, having dictated its own terms, actually took in more from concessions this year than last...
Wells's first marriage, when he was 25, was a failure from the start. A long romantic engagement did little to prepare either party for marital reality. Wells confesses that "quite soon" after his marriage he went to bed with his secretary, felt much better for it. When he fell in love with another woman his wife insisted on a separation; until he could get a divorce he and Amy Catherine Robbins lived cheerfully outside the pale. Since his second wife was fragile and Wells was increasingly amorous they established a modus vivendi. "In theory, I was now to have...