Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first planned two units: a basement church with separate altar; a nave proper on the street level with a high altar surrounded by balconies. But the church fathers objected. The balconies would make the church too much like a cinema palace. The scheme was abandoned. Last week those at the dedication viewed and approved Architect Meier's final effort...
...floor of the main church. What was to have been the main floor has a great semicircular well cut into it around the high altar which rests on the basement floor and rises through the well. Thus the sanctuary is made visible to worshipers on both upper and lower levels and to those in the single balcony which extends around three sides of the upper level...
...excited roar greeted the announcement that J. A. Sisto & Co. Inc. were unable to meet their engagements. Selling pressure increased. By the close of the market 34% of the common stocks listed were at least 20% below their old 1929 bottoms, while 59% touched or dipped under that level...
Seated or standing on a level with the rest the "high tablers" accordingly would be obscured. The four inch dais merely compensates an equivocal detail, with a reasonable allowance for future growth...
Russia has not nearly reached her pre-War level of grain production. She will probably be buying grain before the next twelve months are out. But for the present Dictator Stalin, his authority absolute, can fling a total of perhaps 45,000,000 bushels where it will cause the most excitement. If he succeeds in breaking the world grain market to new lows, Russia will profit doubly because: I) her trade agents are already speculating ("selling short") to profit from the decline; 2) when she begins to buy grain she will get it cheaper than even her present "dumping" price...