Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near one of the great granite boulders that stick up out of the African plains. In the distance will be herds of game (painted on a back drop). It will be sunset, the lions wakening up, stretching themselves. One lioness, with a few bristles on her Irishman's long upper lip, will be on her feet, ready to hunt...
British shipbuilding, long depressed, is active again, with Clyde, Mersey and Tyne River shipyards expecting an active winter. Clyde shipyards have contracts for 30 vessels, including the Empress of Britain, a 40,000-ton liner to be built for Canadian Pacific. Seven whaling ships, one of 20,000 tons, are building for Norwegian whalers, which are rapidly driving British whalers from the Antarctic...
...Long-planned, muchdiscussed, the code was adopted at the ninth annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in Chicago. Much of it might seem to consist of regulations which have become standard practices in most industries. It should be remembered, however, that the oil industry today suffers from overproduction, with its attendant fierceness of competition among more than 3,000 established oil companies. There are in this country about 320,000 oil wells with a potential daily production of about 3,000,000 barrels of oil. During 1926 the average daily domestic demand for crude oil was slightly over...
What caused the collapse? The immediate inciting force appears to have been "tight" money. Loans to brokers had advanced to $5,394,590,000. Call money had climbed higher and higher until it reached 12%. At this point, apparently, the market, so long inflated, suddenly realized its unsound condition. Once the decline had begun, there was nothing to stop it. Indeed, as it continued, forced selling by many small operators with dwindling margins accelerated its fall...
...Walska has a high soprano of some flexibility and range. Her enunciation is something that the artistic world has long sighed for. She has grace and charm sufficient for half a dozen stars of the first magnitude. She is determined to attain the high goal she has set, regardless of vocal equipment...