Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cken, five miles northeast. Forbach is outside the Maginot Line and its forts overlook the German city in the Saar Valley below. The French push of September brought other artillery up to assist Forbach's in dominating Saarbrücken, paralyzing its industry. The French retreat in October left Forbach sticking out like a sore thumb. By last week the Germans had brought up hundreds of guns where they could shell Forbach from three sides, boxing it completely. To defend it would be costly in men and munitions. To surrender it would be to give Germany a keen moral...
Publisher Robert Lee Vann had just left the University of Pittsburgh with a law degree when he founded the Courier in 1910. Today he is a power in Pennsylvania politics, keeps a handsome home in Oakmont, Pittsburgh suburb. Gross income of the Courier in 1938 was over $500,000. Something like $40,000 of that went to Publisher Vann as profit...
...words had scarcely left the Democratic Boss's mouth before the Federal District Court came, for the first time, to the railroads' aid. Ruling that the State could collect no more than 60% of the nine roads' taxes for 1934-35-36, the court ordered a sweeping revision of New Jersey's assessment methods. Until all of the roads' properties were revalued, said the court, the 60% payment rule would hold. Too late to save bankrupt Jersey Central, the order was not too late to apply to the nine roads' 1939 tax bill...
...business sold 58,000,000 tons for $345,000,000-a record. Six years later only 60% of its business was left and the electric refrigerator had doubled its sales. Then, in 1935, paunchy Robert Carl Suhr, president of 24-State, $44,000,000 City Ice & Fuel Co., was less scared than most icemen. He had jumped the rest of the industry five years, had brought his company out of the drippy-wagon, pickerel-pond stage, had $25,710,324 sales and $2,972,997 net income. By the end of 1935, other icemen put Suhr at the head...
Having measured the war boom in this fashion each spoke a word about its soundness. Said the Federal Reserve with reserve: "Unless there is considerable increase in the absorption of goods, the accumulation of inventories now under way might reach significant proportions." The significance of "significant" was left to businessmen's imagination. Said the National City Bank: "Continued building up of inventories, through further forward buying, would prolong the boom but only defer the reckoning...