Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crackles along at a high level of reality and suspense, and is a first-rate "calling all cars" film...
...American Airlines, whose headforemost policy was born entirely of passenger comfort in planes out of level flight-attitude on the ground, now ascertains individual passenger preference before making up berths...
Measured by the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages, the low point of the Depression was July 8, 1932. On that day the famed stockmarket index sank below 42, lowest level since 1897. After a deal of marching and countermarching in the last days of Herbert Hoover, the stock-market burst upward in the wild inflationary bull market of 1933, and, just before the boom in whiskey shares collapsed that summer, the averages...
...February 1934, the stockmarket again reached for a record, the averages this time touching no. But in the jargon of chart readers, the market had thus established what is variously called a "supply area," a "resistance level" or a "critical point." To get chart readers bullishly excited the averages would have to pierce that mystic area of 108-110 into new high ground...
...recover from the deep gloom of winter, and by late last month was shooting swiftly toward the old critical point of 108-110. There for a fortnight it wavered uncertainly. Last week in a sudden surge of heavy trading the Dow-Jones average was thrust upward to 114-highest level since...