Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many of the leading exponents of swing, she was at a loss to define her art, but Chick came to her rescue. "You can't define swing," he said, "it's something that you feel. You go into a night club, and at first you want the band to play nice and slow. Then you put away a couple of drinks, and you start feeling pretty good, and you want band to get hot and you want to go out there and Suzy-Q and Truck and help the band along. "That's swing...
...year ending June 30 the 5,299 national banks achieved the second largest profit in history-$286,561,000, against $301,804,000 in 1929. In 1934 there was a net loss of $303,546,000. This whopping recovery was not, however, entirely gladsome to bankers, for in fiscal 1937 their banks made that showing, not through any blossoming in banking operations but because of reductions in expenses. Gross national bank income in 1929 was $1,389,400,000, expenses $986,882,000. Last year gross bank income was only $847,197,000, expenses $577,851,000. In short, profits...
Adams and Winthrop encountered little opposition, the latter holding the Elephants scoreless for the first half, and allowing one field goal in the second. The Goldcoasters, though weakened by the loss of Slim Curtiss, Doug McLeod, and Dauck, rang up 26 points while holding the Pioneers to four. The Adams-Winthrop encounter on Thursday will probably decide the House championship in the second half of league competition...
Princeton's play was hindered by the loss of three veteran players. Bill Barrett, Senior defenseman, was on the sick list along with Sophomore Harry Turner, left wing on the "Kid Line," and Doug Cochrane, center on the Junior line. Both Cochrane and Turner will be ready for action against Harvard, but it is doubtful if Barrett will make the trip...
...about two-thirds of all installment sales and they like it. But Mr. Merriam does not like it. The finance companies, who are the most articulate defenders of the installment system, point to their Depression record. Between 1929 and 1932, though the volume of their business declined 60%, their loss from liquidation of accounts was not quite i%. And when the upswing came, they helped to speed...