Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one morning last week in the gashouse district on Manhattan's lower East Side, a neat, grey-haired watchman named George Preston, 47, was caught setting fire to a rubbish heap under the stairs of a tenement house whose occupants lay sleeping. Watchman Preston, once a probationary fireman at Lynn, Mass., tearfully told police he took a few drinks every time he got a headache, set fires for excitement every time he took a few drinks. When he accompanied them to The Bronx, pointed out nine buildings he had previously fired, police believed they had cleared...
...Colonel Fulgencio Batista, had dramatically tightened his hold on the island which he now rules. Returning from a long week end in Camagüey Province to his gleaming, refurbished Camp Columbia ten miles outside Havana, Boss Batista met his Capitol lieutenants to hear details of how the lower house of Cuba's 16th Congress was staging a legislative "standup" strike in the corridors outside their chamber. For a full week they had refused to take their seats in number sufficient for a quorum. Unread on the lectern was the latest message which Dictator Batista had authorized his hand...
...peculiar gangling style of running used by Clarence DeMar but not with quite such good results. For, while the 49-year-old veteran finished a strong 14th, Charley was still unheard from at a late hour last night. He was last seen trying to negotiate a hummock near Newton Lower Falls...
...wife. He designed and supervised the building of the Sacramento River $50,000,000 flood-control system, as head of the Mississippi River Commission (1928-32) directed the beginning and a major portion of the Federal Government's $1,000,000,000 flood-control construction in the Lower Mississippi Valley...
...change the official gold content of the Roosevelt dollar, and then within fixed limits (50% to 60% of the Hoover dollar). Its present value is about 59#162; , so that its theoretical value could be revised in only one direction-down, which would indicate higher gold prices, not lower. Yet the sole U. S. market for gold is the Treasury, and the Treasury may pay any price it pleases. Thus if the Treasury one fine day decided to offer $20.67 per oz. for gold instead of $35, the dollar, for all practical purposes, which means in foreign exchange, would...