Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Businessmen flinched at the prospect of seeing the Government step into railroads as it has into Power. But soon Wall Street learned that any investment houses which wanted to hurry and outbid the Government, float equipment trusts of their own at low interest rates, would receive the New Deal's blessing and perhaps insurance for their money...
...Pared a separate two-year Relief appropriation from $73,000,000 to $35,500,000, loading it with amendments to make sure that Relief does not interfere with the supply of low-wage farm hands...
Stocks: Stocks turned weak without a new high for the rails which would have "confirmed" the industrials' last peak (TIME, June 5). The market, unresponsive to Hopkins' optimism and the steel rate, last week lost nearly a third of its gain from 1939's April low...
Commodities: The commodity price index fell again to 75.6, a new 1939 low. Leading the commodity retreat was wheat, reacting over 3? a bushel from the fading of spring's normal crop scare news. The wheat crop will be short, but 1938's prodigious carryover (153,537,000 bushels, which will reach an estimated 275,000,000 bushels in a month) is hanging over the wheat pit, giving farmers a double loss through a low price on a small crop...
Directions: The following statements identify scenes of important recent developments affecting the map of Europe. On the answer sheet, opposite the number of each statement be low, write the number on the map which correctly locates the place or territory described...