Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blow down like its predecessor or collapse-its piers were knocked out from under it. Ice, blown by gales out of Lake Erie and over the falls, piled up 90 ft. high in the river, ground into the bridge's unprotected piers set near water level. After 30 hours it simply pushed the base of the big 840-ft. arch at the U. S. end from its pier and the bridge fell. Useful chiefly for sightseeing, the collapse caused only a minor traffic problem between Niagara Falls, N. Y. and Niagara Falls, Ont. Three separate plans for new bridges...
...year and a half before the 1929 stock crash, bonds broke. Last March, Business failed tc take the hint, however, when bonds that three months before had been at their highest level in history, broke violently. In one day $23,450,000 of Government bonds alone were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, a 16-year record...
...week, utility and railroad stocks descended to new lows. Moody's commodity index was at 149, the New York Times' business index at 82.3 (down 21 points from a year ago). Car loadings stood at 570,000 cars, down 95,000 cars under last year's level. In Pittsburgh was held a meeting of the men whom depression hit first and hardest, the presidents of railroads. Although they offered no supporting facts, they strongly sustained each other's sentiments...
MacLean has taken a leading part at the University of Minnesota in the development of an unique program designed to meet the interests and needs of the increasing numbers of young people who seek an education above the secondary level, but different in purpose and content from that of the conventional four-year college. The General College at Minesota has taken the form of a separate college with methods, curricula, and organization especially designed to serve its particular group of students...
Stefani, who has often confessed great respect for Lowes and other officers of the University, seem disposed to let matters stand as they were. Denying that any "secret clause" existed, he said that none was necessary. "We can trust them to be on the level," he declared...