Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with electricity the seeds of apples, watermelons, almonds, squash, plums. Oranges and grapefruit developed by him are grown in the "Soviet Florida" on the Black Sea. Tireless in his old age, he works now on tobacco to be grown on the lower Volga...
...Conn, (submarines) and Driggs Ordnance & Engineering Co. (antiaircraft guns). Those who expected to hear the cannons roar had to content themselves with a volley of cap pistols. The business ethics of these companies might be low but their volume of trade and general influence in world affairs was even lower. What made their testimony important was that they are primarily dependent on war or the fear of war to make not big profits but any profit...
...tour took him to the bridge. He said Captain Warms saw he was suffering from the smoke, ordered him to take off in No. 1 boat. He did. Steward Bernard Kopf who was in the boat said he heard an order from the bridge: "Don't lower those boats!" But Chief Abbott cried: "Lower away! For God's sake, lower away!" In that boat were 32 of the crew, two passengers. Chief Abbott said he did not see any other passengers around. In his haste to abandon ship he left behind his false teeth...
...James Mars Langham, writer of astrological forecasts for cult-ridden Southern California, advised his clients last week: ''While 1935 looks like a better year with rising stock prices, there is danger of a preceding lower level, until the disturbing effects of the Uranus-Jupiter 180° aspect is over...
...prices down in an era of generally rising prices. Observers believe, however, that this will not have the effect of giving Harvard men the benefit of continued very low prices, because the profit to the student organization is practically entirely in the nature of a sales commission, and the lower the basic prices go, the smaller becomes the margin available for commission allowance by the commercial house actually producing the service. The ultimate effect would be to make the field unprofitable for student organizations, with consequent lessening of competition and a corresponding rise in prices. But in the meantime, indications...