Word: high
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baby's perambulator carted away canned goods by the case, flour by the 50 lb. sack. The squirrel instinct was at work. With a strange reversion to the memories of World War I, U. S. housewives were building up hoards against a winter which they thought would bring high prices and short food supplies...
...forces. Last year, while the world was busy at rearmament it spent generously on parachutes because a pilot is a fighting asset well worth saving even if his plane is lost. Now the world wants more chutes than ever, for war means wear, tear and crashes-high mortality for life savers...
...first week of World War II hit U. S. stock and bond markets like a whirlwind. Many a man was still alive who remembered that Bethlehem Steel flew from a low of 25 in 1914 to a 1915 high of 600, General Motors from 58⅞ to 558. Last week's main gyrations...
...High Grade Rail bonds were sold mostly by private investors. In the two days before Britain and France declared war (before stocks really boomed), the Dow-Jones average for high-grades fell off 1.81 points. Afterwards they lost little or nothing. Much the same was the performance of high-grade industrial and utility bonds...
...France, the "voluntary mobilization" of scientists was further advanced. A decree law of May 1938 instituted the High Council of Scientific Research Coordination, which has numerous subsections-e.g., mathematics, biology, hydraulics, chemistry, optics, ballistics, telecommunications-working closely with the Institute for Applying Scientific Research to National Defense. The Council's officers, members and associates include four Nobel Prizewinners-Jean Perrin, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Prince Louis Victor de Broglie...