Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurrection fails because of the negroes' superstitions. Rain and lightning and thunder are responsible for the loss of many of Gabriel's followers, as well as (partly) for the defection of Ben. Against superstition and treachery even the gods contend in vain, and when Gabriel goes down in defeat he goes down with an undeniable grandeur which even Mr. Bontemps can impart to the reader...
...this reviewer, the bowdlerizing of the script seemed no great loss, except that it brought the exceeding weakness of the dramatic construction out from behind the screen of "life in the raw" or whatever it was that the censor didn't like. For in this case the play certainly is not the thing. Two acts of half-baked comedy are capped by one of equally misshapen tragedy, with the whole thing ineffectually sprinkled over by the note of abject poverty and misery...
...second largest insurance company in Europe ended its existence last week with an announced loss of nearly $80,000,000. Viennese, nervously watching from the sidelines the Ethiopian crisis and the German crisis, suddenly realized that another bomb for the peace of Europe was ticking away at their very feet...
...sagging company. Last week came the end when Phönix-Wien disbanded, three directors were arrested, and from its ashes rose a new insurance company called Austrian Insurance Co. Ltd., capitalized at only $2,000,000. Foreign Phönix policyholders will have to stand their loss. The new company hopes to save Austrian policies with a 5% premium rise, a special tax on other Austrian insurance companies...
...rivers last winter than at any time since 1918. For 33 days no water-borne coal was delivered to the Aliquippa works. Costs were increased so much that the company estimated that operations in the first two months of 1936, when other companies prospered, resulted in a $900,000 loss...