Word: levels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stockmarket reaction whose appearance Wall Street had been waiting for last week blithely appeared. After a fortnight's drifting at about the same level, on volume about half that of booming June and July, prices dropped for six successive days. At week's end all gains since July 2 had been erased; from the August 6 recovery high of 145.67, Dow-Jones industrial averages plopped...
Mostly they had kept their campaign on a more polite level, letting their henchmen prod WPAsters for Barkley votes, old age pensioners and State jobholders for Chandler votes...
...silver, paid workmen himself. Because he admired the endurance of his Chinese cook, he favored Chinese crews over his partners' objections. When the Central Pacific was stopped by wild mountain country (during 1866 only 28 miles of track were laid), the rival Union Pacific was pushing rapidly across level plains, making fortunes for its owners. The partners were frantic but Crocker only added more Chinese, had them digging through rock so hard that four crews advanced only eight inches a day. When Stanford sent steam drilling equipment, Crocker refused to let it be tried...
...imagine that he was shouting the symbol, there were enough sound cues to swell the receiver's average of correct guesses far above the chance expectation. But when the sender was not instructed to indulge in "mental shouting," the percentage of correct guesses dropped to the chance level. Dr. Kennedy felt that these results proved his point with crushing finality...
Like a well-spread buffet lunch, there was food for every thought in last week's business figures. The stockmarket slipped badly one day, steadied the next, ended about on the same level (140.24 on the Dow-Jones industrial averages) it had maintained for two weeks. Some thought this was a lull before a reaction, others declared it a pause while business caught up. Meanwhile, steel production rose again, reaching 39.8% of capacity, an eleven-point rise since prices were cut June 24. Lumber production and wholesale food prices were also up. Freight loadings were off more than seasonally...