Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime the cotton-mill owner, who had become optimistic, saw prospects of being able to sell fabrics spun of 21? cotton, received a severe jolt when the price went up to 24?. The stagnation in the textile trade has been due to a "consumers' strike" against the high prices charged for cotton goods. The refusal of consumers to buy at high prices cannot be changed until the raw cotton itself declines. Retailers refuse to stock up; jobbers are wary; and as a result unemployment is prevalent in the New England mill towns...
University track prospects suffered a severe jolt when it became known on the eve of the opening of the College that R. G. Allen '26, star middle distance runner, will not return to College this year. Allen and R. L. Brooks '26, another track man, will leave this country shortly for a trip of a year or more around the world. They are making the trip as the guests of Lord and Lady Astor, the latter being Brooks aunt. Before sailing from San Francisco for the Orient in mid-October they will be the guests of Douglas Fairbanks...
Grand Duke Cyril, uncrowned Tsar of Russia, cousin of the late Nicholas, received a nasty jolt when he heard that an Anglo-Russian treaty had been signed (TIME, Aug. 18, COMMONWEALTH). He was in his house at Coburg, Germany, when reporters pounced upon him and asked him what about it?" The Grand Duke, of Romanov proportions, towering above the minions of the press, said...
...Harlem section of New York, usually so peaceful and law-abiding, received a severe jolt. About 4 :30 o'clock in the morning when "Bill" Brennan, ex-pugilist and proprietor of the Club Tia Juana Cabaret, was eating a good-night meal with his sister (stage name Shirley Sherman) and with his old friend, James Cullen, a State trooper, a man stepped into the cabaret, tapped Brennan on the shoulder, said : "Bill, can I see you a minute?" Brennan, knowing many, but known to many more, did not recognize the man, but, excusing himself from his sister...
This Spring, however, several things happened. Oil companies raised the price of crude, and again wildcatters began to bring in new crude production. Meanwhile the optimistic predictions of car makers suffered a rude jolt, and curtailment of car production became general throughout the industry. On top of this, the cold Spring dampened the enthusiasm of the motorist. In consequence, consumption of gasoline has not been extraordinary. But stocks of gasoline reached the wholly unprecedented figure of 1,600,000,000 gallons at the end of April. The indefatigable Governor McMasters of South Dakota is underselling the refineries from stocks purchased...