Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the price of wheat dropped on the Liverpool exchange to the lowest figure on record. At 47¼? it slipped under the 50? record set during the hard times of Queen Elizabeth in 1592. Not the threat of man's destruction in war, but proof of nature's productivity, left Liverpool traders aghast: from Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, the U. S. came reports of above-average crops. All told, world wheat production for 1939 was estimated at 3,995,000,000 bushels, exclusive of Russia and China, world consumption at about...
...Britons who pay high rents for grimy kennels or find their shiny new houses falling apart. Many of them have been making it tough for landlords as increasing numbers of "Tenants' Defence Leagues" have demanded lower rents, better plumbing, repairs. If the owner is stubborn, he has a hard time collecting his rent...
...whose Commonwealth & Southern system Bond& Share is a 5% owner) to shift for himself, taking a loss of $2,433,209 on the deal. Finally, Groesbeck submitted to SEChairman Douglas a scheme for integrating his multi-regioned system which sprawls across 33 States, embraces 119 companies, and looks as hard to hook into one chain as the Appalachians and the Rockies...
...luck was of the kind that sounds more credible in books than in life. In Manhattan a retired orchid hunter gave them a map with orchid hotspots neatly indicated. In Bogota they fell in with 67-year-old J. B., "six feet three inches tall, lean and hard, definitely English." His hunches about orchid hiding places were nearly infallible. With this sort of luck and help the young men made good...
...windy Danesacre (Author Jameson's native Whitby), walking on the moors, quarreling with her port-bibbing mother-in-law, ignoring her garrulous sailor husband on his brief visits home. Never able to compromise, to "say with fools and saints, it was for the best," Sylvia's hard shell cracked only once-when her son's plane was shot down in the War. Old age found her blunt-speaking, crotchety as ever, her only weakness dreaming of foreign ports and cities she had known as a girl. Death, when at long last it came, found her still unreconciled...