Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something of a surprise, since he is generally regarded as a moderate in Mexican politics. Leftist money was expected to go down on General Francisco Múgica, an ardent Left-winger and Cardenas follower. The expropriation of the foreign-owned oil properties year ago, however, caused a terrific loss of Government revenue, cut down production in many industries, led to sky-high prices, and, in some cases, lower wages. Ever since there has been a growing desire among many Mexicans for a more moderate policy than President Cárdenas', and best-informed opinion last week was that...
Five years later Papa Haydn was dead and his head was off-stolen from his grave by ardent phrenologists. When the loss was discovered and the culprits pressed for its return, they surrendered a skull which passed for Haydn's. But it was not. Like a historic football, the real article was kicked around Austria for 75 years until it landed in a glass case in the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. The Esterhazy family (on whose estate Haydn lived and was mostly buried) announced that until the skull was returned, no one could have access...
...feared the loss of life would be great. The Domel News Agency said that more than 300 wounded persons had been admitted to hospitals...
Last week when FDIChairman Leo Crowley announced that $17,000,000 of the $21,500,000 loss was completely covered, that another million consisted of uninvested trust funds that were fully secured, Jersey City knew it had only a stomachache, not appendicitis...
Weakened by the loss of two of its first string men, the Crimson poloists, outscored in every period by the Yale team, lost by a final score of 26 to 6 Saturday night...