Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first instance you have put yourself on a level with the old Police Gazette in its palmiest days and in the second you have rivaled scandal-mongering old Town Topics when it was out looking for people to blackmail...
...Weakened by a thrice-pared dividend and rate-reduction threats, the leading power & light stock, Consolidated Gas, was selling near its Bear Market low of $31.50. Chart-watchers had ruefully eyed prices slipping through the March lows, through the December lows, finally fetching up around the levels of last October. As these "resistance points" cracked under heavy selling last week, market pundits began to predict a reversal in the major upward swing which started not with New Deal but on July 8, 1932. Yet the steel industry last week was operating at 60% of capacity-highest level since September...
...been transferred to the Fund's credit with the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Only inference from the changed bookkeeping was that Secretary Morgenthau was getting ready to put his stabilization fund into action, buying and selling foreign exchange to keep the U. S. dollar at its 59?- level. Newshawks rushed to him eagerly. Said he: "I have no comment whatever to make." Then he grinned: "It's lucky I went on the record with respect to that some weeks...
Lake Michigan's water level was uncommonly low last week. Trooping along the shore near Chicago, a bevy of geology students from Central Y. M. C. A. College of Arts & Science were so surprised to see parts of a submerged reef well known to chartmakers jutting a few inches above water that they waded out to chip off samples. When they brought back their specimens to Instructor James H. Glasgow, University of Chicago graduate student, he stared at the stuff, decided it was white coral, sent it to university geologists who confirmed his opinion. Divers were sent to survey...
...trying to abide by the will of Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, which had also stipulated that the winning drama should be pre-eminent "in raising the standards of good morals, good taste and good manners." Last week the award of the Pulitzer Prize, which may not raise the national dramatic level but can usually be counted upon to raise a dust cloud of national controversy, ran true to form. Taking advantage of advance press releases, gabby Walter Winchell jumped the gun a full two weeks by announcing in his radio period and tabloid column that the 1933-34 prizewinner...