Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last good campaign for cartoonists was that of 1928. Times were good, popular issues were sharp, simple, easily pictured-the Brown Derby, the Noble Experiment, Two Cars in Every Garage & a Chicken in Every Pot. By 1932 Depression had cast the land in gloom and cartoonists were forced to wrestle with such huge intangibles as the Gold Standard, War Debts, Unemployment, a Change...
...reported to contain $200 to $600 of gold per ton. Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd., had bought the claims and was about to start drilling while dozens of mining engineers, hundreds of prospectors were stalking Arden's once placid streets. Again Depression, which steeps most men in gloom and poverty, was demonstrating its power of bringing hope and sometimes wealth to those who tie their fortunes to gold...
...President got back to his train to find 5,000 cheering Bismarckians awaiting him. "Back East," he told them, "there have been all kinds of reports that out in the drought area there was a despondency, a lack of hope for the future and a general atmosphere of gloom. But I had a hunch, and it was the right one, that when I got out here I would find that you people had your chins up. ... I get a picture which reassures me as to the future of the so-called Great Plains drought area-reassurances of the fact that...
Last week the British League of Nations Union deserted even by Nobel Peace Knight Sir Austen Chamberlain, was cutting its staff, slashing wages, rapidly folding up in a state of gloom...
...hallmark of most Russian films is their incongruous blend of loose amateurism and disciplined genius. In We Are From Kronstadt, Cameraman N. Naumov-Straj turns in a magnificent feat of cinematography when he articulates the progress of this remarkable revolutionary battle piece. Taking advantage of the dank Baltic gloom around the Kronstadt Naval Base to begin his film in low key, he dramatically heightens it until the climax is reached with the great attack and rout of the White Army on the bleached, glaring tundras north of Petrograd. At the same time, We Are From Kronstadt is periodi cally botched...