Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hert. Republican National Committeewoman from Kentucky. From New York came Bernard Baruch, Forbes Morgan, onetime Sheriff Tom Farley. Boss John F. Curry, who made his own bets. Boss John McCooey who tried to pick a "daily double." From Washington came Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. Postmaster General James A. Farley who called the gathering "the flower of Democracy," presented the gold trophy to Col. Bradley...
...unbelievably prolific East Texas oil field. It was discovered in 1930, a huge underground lake of oil, 32 miles long and three miles wide. Wildcatters and great oil companies had soon planted 10.000 derricks over it, drilled 10,000 shafts 3,600 ft. deep to tap the subterranean flood. As the oil spouted through 10,000 pinholes in the earth's crust it greased the skids of oil prices. Tighter & tighter the industry drew its proration rules but prices fell to 10?. Then the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas shut down the wells with State troops until...
...just before the World War. Clim Samghin, lawyer and intellectual, has married his old flame. Varvara, but has discovered she is much too stupid for him. Interested, but never actively, in the social upheaval that is going on about him, Clim manages to keep his head above the emotional flood, picks a careful way between whirlpools. But revolutionary Moscow is no place for a spectator: he dodges bullets, gets beaten up on the street, finally leaves Moscow and his whimpering wife for the country. In a provincial town he has an affair with the singer Duniasha, then becomes legal agent...
...glory holes enriched Sandy Bowers, an illiterate Missouri teamster, made his washerwoman bride, Eilly Orrum. Queen of the Comstock. Its abandoned workings, bought in 1872 for $100,000, in four years yielded $100,000,000 to its four new owners-Irishmen William S. O'Brien, James C. Flood, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay-father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Mackay. In 1907 a fall of rock disclosed a $1,000,000 pocket of gold and silver. In 1912 another $1,250,000 pocket was found 2,500 ft. underground. But the Comstock's surprises have...
...Bank of England's gold reserve reached $885.000.000, an all-time high, which pointed toward some sort of de facto stabilization of the pound-provided the dollar is not devaluated. The currency situation upsets normal trade channels because of a low-currency country's ability to flood a high-currency country with cheap goods despite towering tariffs. Much will be said at the White House about this unfair method of international competition. The Agenda Commission, rejecting bimetallism, recommends increased subsidiary coinage of silver-a recommendation that started rumors that the U. S., Britain and France were...