Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate's cavernous marble caucus room. Senator Donahey called Arthur Morgan to present his complaints first. The gaunt, eagle-faced old hydraulic engineer carried to the stand a fat bale of mimeographed matter. As he read, his big audience became successively quiet, bored, restless. For in low, mumbling tones he continued reading, uninterrupted, for five and three-quarter hours...
Intermittently since then the old Jamaica story of low pay and virtual serfdom, has cropped up. Early last month sugar plantation workers rioted, caused several days' disturbances. Last week economic discontent reached the general-strike and general-riot stage in the island's capital, Kingston...
...recent Macmillan survey, western book sellers picked Reader's Guide broadcasts as most influential swayer of readers' habits. Book sales react automatically to Jackson's by no means low-brow judgments. He damned Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke and Lloyd Douglas' Home for Christmas out of West Coast best-seller lists while they were doing well throughout the rest of the country. His one conspicuous failure was Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. A full broadcast of dispraise was unavailing against Californian determination...
Thus copper, an excellent gauge of business pressure, showed foreign industry still moving under good steam. But in the U. S. pressure remained low. The latest Federal Reserve index of industrial production (for April) stood at 17, down two points from March. Statisticians guessed that by last week it had dropped another point or two. Other metals besides copper reflected this trend: Scrap steel and tin were off slightly for the week, lead was down to 4? a pound from...
...business. With a $3,225,000 bond issue and a PWTA loan, he started building a municipal power plant. National Power accepted the next offer-$6,000,000; Mr. Mynatt promptly stopped work on his plant. This time National Power's preferred stockholders thought the price was too low. Mr. Mynatt went on higgling and resumed work on the plant. Fortnight ago his price was $7,500,000. Last week he went to Washington to confer with Paul Sawyer of National Power and David Lilienthal of TVA. raised his bid $400,000. At last they called it a deal...