Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from $20 to $27.50; Southern Pacific up from $17 to $23.75. Leading industrial and utility stocks showed almost parallel rises. From last week's low of 125.73, the Dow-Jones industrial averages stepped up almost ten points. U. S. Steel alone remained sulky, hovering around the $61 level...
...Dons, Elbel and Donahue, are alternating at the wing back post, while Bob James, who also is a signal caller, is about on a level with John Santosuosso for the left halfback berth. The latter has been out with injuries but will be a serious contender for a place in the backfield with his return to the squad this week...
...Estimate has consistently refused to permit the weeding from office of their political parasites, restoring in the face of La Guardia's explosive wrath sixty-four hirelings of no value to the community only in the last week. As for finances, the city's credit is at a higher level than at any time in a generation. The housing and other public projects to which the benevolent Democrat objects take the form of a series of new dwellings for the working population, as fine and practical examples of governmental paternalism as we have in the country, a number of public...
...progress is increased," but said that "competition has already practically disappeared in many industries, and that in other industries it has proven conspicuously wasteful." Placing public regulation as the only alternative to competition, Dr. Reynolds said that it would be necessary that "a public agency . . . shall actually decide . . . the level of prices and profits and the extent of new investment...
...find thus announced last week by Dr. Julian H. Steward of the Smithsonian Institution was made in a cave near Utah's Great Salt Lake. As the water level in the lake sank, millennium after millennium, the caves around it are supposed to have been eaten out by the action of waves at the shore. The cave which yielded up Dr.Steward's fossil infant is now 365 ft. above the lake level. Yet the fact that the skeleton was imbedded in lake gravel on the cave floor indicated that the cave was inhabited soon after the water retreated...