Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only 62,000 unemployed. Antwerp shipping increases yearly, and the city's skyline, almost unchanged since the days of Pieter Breughel and Jan van Eyck, is now stabbed by an up-to-date portentous 20-story skyscraper. The gold coverage of Belgian banknotes is at the proud level...
...Cudahy added that his cotton would be held for one year or until the price reached 10? per Ib. At that level a $660,000 profit would be shown for the Cudahy Packing...
...Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, consulting statistician for Prudential Insurance Co., the worst in the world. The U. S. appendicitis death rate per 100,000 inhabitants in 1929 was 15.2. Now the rate may be still higher. For in 1920 it was 13.4, from which it rose to the 1929 level...
...waters of the Yangtze, swollen by last month's rains-rose to 53.4 ft., ten feet above flood level, and continued going higher, relief agencies were mobilizing for a task that looked impossible. Of China's great central plain, an area 500 by 1,000 miles was affected by the floods, not only of the Yangtze but of the Hwai River to the north. Homeless were 30,000,000 people; 10,000,000 were utterly destitute, with hundreds dying daily. Eventually, it was estimated, the death toll would reach 2,000,000. Pestilence was abroad, was to become...
...part of the model. She is rude to her old and platonic admirer. She prefers circulating in a socialite environment, notably at Newport where she is "untrue to herself" with the assistance of a cub socialite. Penitent, she breaks her engagement with him, promises to be true to a level-headed young writer, and recognizes, for no very good reason, the old cloak & suit buyer as her father. Well-mounted, directed and acted, Bought is acceptable though severely commonplace entertainment. Silly shot: a cross-section of the model's bookshelf, intended to indicate that she loves good books, showing...