Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Pilot Richardson returned. The smoke over Santa Maria was grey and ominous. For miles around the verdure was burnt and hideous. Pilot Richardson swung his plane lower. Haciendas, coffee plantations had disappeared. The flanks of Santa Maria were streaked with wrinkled beds of steaming lava, moving in ponderous streams toward the sea. In the midst of the lava stream a little hill made an island of refuge. On it huddled a group of the same peons who had waved to him three days earlier, men, women, children. They were completely marooned. Inch by inch the lava stream crept...
...break, the most important question could not be answered, i. e.: to what extent would the Bear psychology of the market spread to business generally? Through last week, optimism was certainly more pronounced than pessimism. Stock brokers were far more pessimistic than businessmen. Being, especially in the lower ranks, a provincially Manhattan lot, they seemed to think the Stockmarket would be disgraced if Business did not humbly follow its lead. Outside of lower Manhattan, Detroit was the gloomiest spot, the depths being reached by the jocular motor executive who seemed to feel that never again would any U. S. citizen...
Monday, Nov. 4, when the Exchange re-opened there were more sellers than buyers but none were frenetic. Toward noon prices climbed, then dropped again. In general stocks closed lower than Thursday. U. S. Steel closed at 180, Radio at 43¼, General Motors at 45¼. The market except at the very opening was dull as though it were tired. But it seemed to rest securely. Stock Exchange Governors ordered the Exchange closed after 1 o'clock Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; all day Saturday. Tuesday was a legal holiday (election day). Thus was further rest insured...
...most important change to have been made in Widener Library since its completion in 1915 will be the transformation of the old lower reading room into an addition to the Treasure Room. For some weeks work has been carried on in remodeling the former history and tutorial library into a room of smaller dimensions...
...north end of the lower room has been devoted entirely to stacks on which some of the valuable books are to be stored This section will be separated from the remainder of the study room by locked doors. Glass casings have been built over the shelves surrounding the open space, and several tables and chairs will be placed about the room. These are to be used by men making studies for which facts can be found only in the volumes of the Treasure Room...