Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British and French flags and drawn by a blue and gold locomotive, drew into Paris at a newly decorated station in the Bois de Boulogne, used only on visits of State. Their Majesties' arrival in Paris was signaled by releasing 10,000 white "Doves of Peace" from a huge, flower-decked cage. The 2.000,000 citizens of Paris who had turned out to sing and cheer realized in advance that they would scarcely glimpse Their Majesties, for every Frenchman knew that Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut was going to take excessive measures for their protection-and knew...
Last week the German Government showed its growing irritation at all this by flaring out sharply in a safe direction, against Brazil. Most of the Latin American states have long been as vexed as Rumania at the sharp German practice of buying huge quantities of raw materials on credit or with blocked marks, then selling these goods for cash at dumping prices, often in direct competition with the producing countries. On June 30, the Brazilian Government ordered the Bank of Brazil to cease buying blocked or aski marks, thus forcing Germany to pay in genuine currency for any Brazilian goods...
After a spell of stormy weather, the surface of Lake Michigan was calm off the shore near Holland, Mich., one sunny, windless day last week. Without warning a huge, smooth wall of water, at least ten feet high according to witnesses, rolled in from the lake, smashed the shoreline. Other big waves followed. Scores of rescues were made along miles of waterfront. Five persons were swept out into the lake by a ferocious undertow and drowned...
...Newport, Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's exhibition of 15 pieces of sculpture, ranging from small bronzes to a huge plaster Rock Group turned out to be more popular than a show by 20 contemporary painters which opened at the same time. Aside from a group of abstract studies that local critics defended somewhat uneasily, paintings at the Newport Art Association exhibit included the veteran Edward Hopper's oil Sun on Prospect Street, Charles Burchfield's water color Black Iron, the work of John Marin, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh, Henry Yarnum Poor, others as eminent...
...Began an investigation of the investment policies of insurance companies. By the Securities Act of 1933, new security issues must be registered with SEC before sale unless the entire issue is to be sold to one buyer. With their huge cash resources, insurance companies habitually buy entire issues. Investment bankers estimate the total of such purchases as high as $1,500,000,000 a year. SEC Chairman William O. Douglas last week commented that this gave "insurance companies a preferred status over other investors." As a part of the current Monopoly Investigation, SEC will study the subject...