Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Francis Peabody, 83, Boston lawyer; after long illness; in Milton, Mass. Educated in England, at Cheltenham, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn, London, Peabody returned to lead Massachusetts' legal, social, sporting life for 50 years. He co-founded Norfolk and Myopia Hunt Clubs, the Brookline Country Club, the Nahant Club...
Since February 1933, the general U. S. price level has risen 32%, cost of living 24%, prices of farm products 118%, wholesale prices 45%, Moody's index of spot prices of basic commodities 140%, prices of copper 188%, lead 115%, eggs 73%, flour 69%. Listing these figures and many others in the December Atlantic Monthly, Princeton Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer commented: "That is inflation." Economist Kemmerer expects commodity prices to rise some 69% more and the cost of living to double. Nor is this a lone-wolf stand. Harvard's Professor Melvin Thomas Copeland made similar predictions last...
...commodities or commodity future contracts. On December 31, 35% of its portfolio was in the warehouse, 65% in futures. It had future contracts to buy or sell in cocoa, copper, corn, cotton, hides, oats, rubber, sugar, wheat, wool and pepper. In the warehouse it held cocoa (179,482 lb.), lead (659,836 lb.), pepper (785,600 lb.), rubber (67,036 lb.), sugar (1,344,000 lb.), wool (51,751 lb.) and zinc (120,046 lb.). An investor who held 2% of Commodity Corp.'s outstanding shares on December 31 thus owned 2% less costs of each of these tangible...
...through Hades, the Ovidian tale of the seamen who, while kidnapping Bacchus, were transformed to dolphins as their ship, becalmed, sprouted grape-laden vines. The legends appear indiscriminately in ancient. Renaissance and modern dress, according to whichever time or whatever place Poet Pound's eruditely literate, expatriated sensibilities lead him to be thinking about. The resultant confusion is only skin-deep -since to any man, anywhere, any time, life may seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter may, anywhere, any time, startle any man into his creative senses. Into the roomy holds of these seagoing...
Harding, who also scored the first goal in the Queens game, lost no time in sending the Crimson off to a short-lived lead after 35 seconds of the first period. Just 15 seconds later Maynard tied the count for Toronto. The home team scored two more goals in the opening stanza to take a 3-2 lead. Mechem scored the Crimson's other goal with assists going to Hicks and Roberts...