Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stoppages. Because of the banking holiday, cancellations of orders poured in on businesses everywhere. U. S. Steel's unfilled orders fell to 1,854,200 tons, a new low record. Estimates were that the steel industry operations had fallen another 2% to 15% of capacity...
...indices of industrial production sharply down, carloadings fell to 477,000 on the last weekly report (March 4), 36,000 less than two weeks before, 256,000 less than two years ago, adding to the sad and still unfinished tale of railroad woes with the full force of the holiday yet to be felt...
...Prices. Anticipating a buying wave when the bank holiday passed, many prices moved up, giving the lie to the bearish signs of stoppages. Meat prices made the stiffest advance but yielded when housewives refused to increase purchases. Wheat prices were generally up in Winnipeg and other world markets. Cotton moved up a bit at Liverpool. These half-promises of better returns for farmers gave a hopeful indication that farm buying power might be bettered, mail order business and farm machinery business improved...
...doubt or whisper as to the liquidity, solvency and strength of these four banks. Had every bank in New York and the U. S.-or even a considerable fraction of them-been managed with equal sagacity, the United States would not have been treated to last week's holiday spectacle. That was the simplest answer to the Aldrich blast. It was made not by a Morgan Partner but in one laconic and ironic sentence from the lips of Guaranty Trust's President William Chapman Potter: "My conscience is easy...
...Divorcement, last autumn) Katharine Hepburn came as close as anyone can to stealing a picture from John Barrymore. Before that she had been a stage actress whose principal talent seemed to be for getting and then losing lead parts in plays like The Big Pond and Death Takes a Holiday...