Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revue and most of the acts are boring. Director Anderson has made the picture a vehicle for glorifying stagecraft instead of using stagecraft to sharpen entertainment. Actually the entertainment value of King of Jazz is considerably less than that of an unelaborated concert by the Whiteman orchestra; the level of wit is indicated by such parodies as "All Noisy on the Eastern Front" and the "Bridal Veil" number in which, to an incredibly stupid lyric, "the brides of long ago" parade as they have paraded in vaudeville for 15 years...
...taken a little more than two days for workmen of the American Wrecking Company to level to their foundations the wooden frame buildings just in the rear of McKinlock Hall on the site of the new addition...
...week the Department of Labor issued its March employment figures which completely confounded the January prophets, raised doubts as to the fulfillment of the President's own forecast. Instead of a Spring employment rise, the March figures indicated a Spring slump of 1% under the already depressed February level...
...face of a commodity decline which has caused such losses in the past five months as 15% for wheat, 16% for silver, 13% for lead, copper long stayed firm at 18?. Last week, two days before the first anniversary of the 18? level, copper dropped to 14?. In actual size, this 22% reduction is a tremendous one, perhaps the biggest single drop ever recorded in any commodity. But the news was neither surprising nor alarming, for 18? copper had lately been becoming more a theory than a fact...
Copper prices for export are fixed by Copper Exporters, Inc., to which belong all the important U. S. copper producers. Acting quite independently, but with a unanimity as perfect as if they had an agreement, these producers fix the price for domestic copper at an equivalent level. The 18? price was started April 15, 1929, after a wave of copper buying had sent the price to 24? for a short period. Even then consumers protested against the price, and with the decline in business last autumn it seemed obvious that a reduction would have to come. Buying became negligible, exports...