Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immediately responsible for Richard Whitney's downfall was a seemingly innocuous rumor-that his company was engaged in "distress selling" of Greyhound stock. Investigation proved the rumor apocryphal but proved the firm insolvent...
Varsity debaters will be polite but firm this afternoon when they argue with a trio from Vassar on the value, if any, of the Equal Rights For Women amendment...
After leaving Princeton, Morey went to Liberia for Rockefeller, and there picked up a scandal about Firestone and an acute case of malaria, according to his Harvard friends. Recuperating in Denmark and firm in the conviction that Rockefeller hires promising students merely to silence them, Morely invented his game, it is reported...
...newspapers immediately an nounced they would not recognize the "censorship," burgeoned with angry talk about "dictators" and "asinine orders." Citizens called up the papers to report petty accidents, robberies, the finding of an unidentified body. At the end of a quiet week Commissioner Eastwood was still holding firm, personally assured Tacomans no one had been murdered or kidnapped since his order took effect...
...rayon firm is American Viscose Corp., No. 2 Du Pont...