Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Father Coughlin denounced the World Court in 1935, Western Union and Postal Telegraph handled 200,000 telegrams to Congressmen. Last week, result of his exhortation fell just short of that record, but it was second to nothing else in the history of U. S. communications. For hours after his speech, anyone in New York City who hoped to send a telegram had to wait at least an hour because the whole facilities of both Postal Telegraph and Western Union were being used by Father Coughlin's responsive listeners. By the next day, when the time came...
...Producer LeRoy, a son-in-law of Triumvir Harry M. Warner, left the family plot for a production berth at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, safe from barbed thrusts about nepotism. Sawed-off, narrow-eyed, cigar-waving Producer LeRoy is still hailed, at 37, as the Boy Wonder. At five he fell three stories in the San Francisco earthquake, landed unhurt on a mattress. At nine, engaged at $2.50 a week in a stage production of Barbara Frietchie to watch for the Rebels from a prop tree, he fell out of the tree, got a raise because audiences liked the variation. After...
...small Irish jumper, Sir Francis Towle's Airgead Sios, raced ahead of the field at the start. Jump after jump he took beautifully until the tenth fence, just beyond Valentine's Brook, there he fell and threw his jockey. Delachance, the American favorite, swept into the lead, was still pacing the pack over the water jump before the grandstand, when Rock Lad, only Canadian-owned horse in the race, fell. He crawled out with a broken back. An ambulance drove out on the track to destroy him and remove his body, as Delachance led 18 survivors...
...output was off 8%, automobile production dropped to 56,000 units against 101,000 year ago, steel production was at 33% of capacity, Manhattan department store sales were down 16%. car-loadings were a horrifying 75% of normal and the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production fell to 79 against 117 last August. The South, with 8¾? cotton (in 1931 it went to 6?, was not as badly off as Mr. Roosevelt told his Georgia audience it was. In the Far West business was far better than in the industrial East, but business sentiment was just...
...July Cargill and Farmers National had a brisk little fight between themselves. Cargill then held the long interest in corn and Farmers the short, but at the last minute Farmers dumped 500,000 bu. of previously invisible corn on the market, gave Cargill a real trimming as the price fell 27?. Last September Cargill got even. With only a small carryover from the previous year, corn was scarce anyway and Cargill bought almost twice as much (6,000,000 bu.) as there was available for delivery that month. There followed a mad forage for corn by shorts, of whom...