Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some 100,000 Chinese troops deployed under orders to defend Hangchow, 100 miles southwest of Shanghai, scattered in headlong flight last week and that great city fell to the Japanese-the sixth Chinese provincial capital taken since the present war began last July...
...more will do so before February 1. Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams reported that 100,000 names had been added to WPA rolls. And Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins announced that 570,000 lost their jobs between mid-October and mid-November, that weekly industrial payrolls fell...
...plan of Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne whereby all sugar-producing nations adopted export quotas. Put into effect in 1931, the Chadbourne plan failed to raise prices because its quotas were too high in the face of declining world sugar demand. In 1932 the average world price of sugar fell to .9? a lb., well below the cost of production. Since then it has never recovered...
...give the U. S. its surfeit of literary talk get no such fees. In the declining scale of rates, a best-selling author like Dorothea Brande (Wake Up and Live!) can count on getting $500 a lecture, while best-selling writers of the stature of Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama) are quoted at $200. The majority of lectures are delivered at prices ranging between $100 and $200, and in the case of impromptu readings of poets or proletarian novelists to radical groups, rates finally taper off to $5 an evening or just...
...pied piper of Hamelin was a dismal flop compared to the modern underworld radio show. One day four years ago several young matrons at the Women's Club in suburban Maplewood, N. J. fell to talking about this problem, a great worry to many a U. S. mother who has observed the intense preoccupation of U. S. moppets with the cheap and sensational entertainment provided for them by films, newspaper strips and particularly the radio. Said brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Dorothy L. McFadden, mother of James & Jean and wife of James L. McFadden, export consultant and amateur sketcher...