Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May two blackamoors stumbled over something horrid at the edge of Hornbecker's Pond near North Haverstraw, N. Y. It was a partially decomposed human head. One eye had been punched out, half of the nose severed, the lower jaw slashed. Last July a torso was found in Congers Lake, six miles away. Head and body belonged to the same person whom police surgeons described as an Italian or Jew about 45 years old with curly greying hair and the habit of smoking a pipe on the left side of his mouth. There were no other clews...
Since all the Nahlin's regular staterooms are on lower decks and likely to be hot, the walnut furniture of the top-deck library was lugged out and walnut bedroom furniture, bought at Southampton, lugged in. After one look at the large walnut bed in which His Majesty was expected to sleep, a trusted aide condemned it as "too formal," sent it back and had an informal little number rushed aboard at the last moment. According to the Nahlin's proud owner, "Britain's Richest Widow" Lady Yule: "She is the most beautiful yacht in the world...
...could sell them to someone else in his own country who wished to do so. Obviously the foreign creditor could sell his blocked marks only at a discount and the effect of this was the same as a subsidy enabling the German exporter to boost sales by quoting lower prices. As the system grew it became so complicated that Dr. Schacht's books now have entries representing some 20 different kinds of marks in actual use in three broad classifications : the Registered Mark, the Securities Blocked Mark and the Credit Blocked Mark...
Less roomy than Pullmans, the new sleepers have a great advantage in price. A Chicago-New York lower berth Pullman ride costs $33.25. In the bus it costs $20.25-and all meals are free. At present limited to this run, which they make in 26 hr., the new sleepers will go on a transcontinental schedule as soon as more are built...
...issue to 78?. When & if the Utilities Power & Light directors vote part of the proceeds of the British sale for bond retirement, Atlas Corp. will be on the same footing as any other debenture holder. If Atlas is willing to sell its debentures to the company at a lower price than other holders, Atlas will get its money out, but the position of the other bondholders will be strengthened, because there will be fewer bonds outstanding. On the other hand, if Atlas holds out, other investors will get the cash, Atlas the improved position...