Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Utility stock prices declined last week to the lowest level since 1932. The railroad averages rolled into new low ground for the year. Only a four-point drop in the Dow-Jones industrial averages was needed for chart-watchers to say that a bear market had been in progress for the major part of the New Deal. In terms of gold, stock prices were barely above the Hoover lows...
...James Mars Langham, writer of astrological forecasts for cult-ridden Southern California, advised his clients last week: ''While 1935 looks like a better year with rising stock prices, there is danger of a preceding lower level, until the disturbing effects of the Uranus-Jupiter 180° aspect is over...
Adapted from incidents in Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart's autobiography. British Agent is lifted a notch above the level of run-of-the-mill spy pictures by the eloquent dialog by Laird Doyle, by expert performances by Howard and Francis. Good shot: a firing squad dealing with one of Locke's confreres...
...latest pamphlet The Coming American Boom (TIME, Aug. 27). For a time the brisk, dapper London stockbroker, whose record as a market forecaster has been well publicized, displaced President Roosevelt as the most-discussed man in the Street. One day when stock-market trading dwindled to the lowest level in twelve years, brokers said it was because everyone had stopped to read Major Angas' prediction. Few days later when trading swelled suddenly to more than 1,000,000 shares and prices soared, they called it the "Angas rally." When the rally faltered next day one broker remarked: "What this...
WASN'T THE DEPRESSION TERRIBLE?O. Soglow and David G. Plotkin?Covici, Friede ($2). One hundred and five drawings in Cartoonist Soglow's more rowdy, bawdy, free-line manner, together with a treatise by Idea Man Plotkin on the "dialectical message that all is not on the level." constitute the subject matter of this large flat tome. "After clue deliberation and many consultations with our publisher," say Collaborators Soglow and Plotkin. ''we have arrived at the conclusion that the Depression must go." The result is an original opus instead of a collection of Artist Soglow's previously published pictures from...