Word: levels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here that the picture falls down, because artifice doesn't become Irene Dunn. She is best at good, clean kidding, and only when she breaks through with her own personality does the picture reach a high level of entertainment. Too often it tends to be vulgar, with a clumsy, unamusing vulgarity. In the last sequence, which would never have taken place if Cary Grant hadn't kept opening the door of their adjoining bed-rooms, Miss Dunn looks decidedly uncomfortable, as though she were wishing the picture would hurry...
...level was established by the Reserve Board in February 1936 when the Dow-Jones industrial averages stood at a healthy 147 and Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles detected a tendency for brokers' loans to mushroom. Since then the Dow-Jones industrial averages have risen slowly to 194.40, and fallen sharply back to an unhealthy 125.73. By last week, the contraction of prices had reduced the equity of so many traders below 55% that, according to Frazier Jelke & Co., at least half the margin accounts were "restricted" (i.e., not eligible for new transactions which would increase the margin deficiency...
...high, Mt. Whitney's solitary spire, rising 14,495 ft. into the California sky tops them all-highest land point in the nation. On the uplands close by lies Lake Tulainyo, highest U. S. lake. Eighty miles due east is Death Valley, 276 ft. below sea level, lowest, hottest spot in the U. S. Last week Californians celebrated the opening of 17 miles of CCC built roadway, the last link in a highway connecting the highest and lowest spots in the U. S. A gourd of mountain water dipped from Tulainyo was carried through 150 miles of cheers, bands...
...more than 100 characters, covers a range of scenes that would wear the shoes off a dozen reporters. Attempting to do for all New York City what his Street Scene did for one of its blocks, the novel is a sort of tabloid morality play, about on a literary level with Felix Reisenberg's East Side, West Side, leading best-seller of its kind, a number of levels below John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer. Clearly marked for commercial success, this Rice pudding is seasoned with everything that ever came out of Author Rice's cupboard: courtroom atmosphere...
...Steel thudded to a new low of $52.50, New York Central to a low that day of $18.38. Bonds were under heavy fire from selling and grew cheaper & cheaper. At the close of the day and week, Dow-Jones railroad averages stood at 32.32, industrials 127.15-about the level of October 1935 and taken together a decline of 37% since August...