Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the statue was being built in Paris (1876-84), Prince Svasti by going inside it laid the firm foundation of a goodwill-puzzle that has made Americans smile half a century.? Another Siamese good one is this...
...should. On the eve of Mr. Wiggin's party an announcement was made that Halsey, Stuart & Co. had retired from the entire proceedings. Wall Street became a little more nervous. The ghost, it seemed, must indeed be a big ghost if Halsey, Stuart & Co. backed out, for the firm was one of the first houses to finance motion picture enterprises. Rumored as the chief reason for the withdrawal was Halsey, Stuart & Co.'s objection to the relationship between Fox Film and General Theatres Equipment, which sells much equipment to Fox-controlled theatres...
Democrat Cermak had the firm if not ardent support of such famed Chicagoans as William Ruggles Dawes, Silas Hardy Strawn, Julius Rosenwald and Frank Jo seph Loesch. He kept his campaign on a nice, colorless plane. He harped on police reform, aid to the jobless, reduced taxes. But voters took his promises at a discount because his own record was that of a routine politician who had risen to the top of his party. When Thompson assailed him as "that pushcart peddler," he promptly organized a parade of pushcart peddlers who vowed to vote for him. Plump and precise, bespectacled...
...profiteers but certainly wealthy men have supplied "Handsome Adolf" with the wherewithal to pay each member of his Gang eight marks per day ($1.90). When Storm Captain Stennes went to the Hitler bank in Berlin to cash a check for further storm funds a very mild but very firm cashier refused his check...
...drop in production were 1928 and 1922. 1931 proved no exception, as last week steel production fell from 57% of capacity to 55%, the first decline of the year. Said Iron Age: "This set-back is not regarded as signifying anything more than exaggerated caution." Steel prices remain firm, highish, but it is well known that naming a price and doing business at it are not the same thing in the steel industry...