Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers on the Continent that the game had been won by Yale with a score of 3-0, the Daily Mail swung into the fray: "A 'spinner' by Yale's right half through the centre gave the first down to the Crimsons (Harvard) at the 11-yard mark. Then Eli, the Yale left half, heaved a long one that failed...
...promised to testify for the Snyders that he "would have given $1,000,000 for the estate" before the dammed waters started to rise, "would not have it at any price now." Meanwhile Union Electric Light & Power Co.'s new lake kept rising, last week reached high water mark for the first time...
...three-hour flurry of fear lest Adolf Hitler become Chancellor of Germany and topple the mark like Humpty Dumpty off the Gold Standard, gave Wall Street a black afternoon last week. Leading Man hattan bank stocks dipped as much as 20 points. German 5½% Young Plan bonds (quoted earlier this year at $84) sold...
Germans were tardy about scotching Wall Street's scare. The Reichsbank in President Hans Luther's own good time denied officially that the mark would go off gold. Followed an official Foreign Office denial and at the Chancellery it was said that Dr. Brüning, far from handing the Government over to Herr Hitler, planned to attend the World Disarmament Conference next February as Chancellor...
When Sewell Avery was made president of United States Gypsum in 1905 the company was four years old, he 31. He built it up steadily until earnings in 1925 and 1926 passed the $8,000,000 mark. A decline followed which carried profits down to $5,100,000 in 1929. For four years Gypsum engaged in a severe price-war with its big competitor Certain-Teed Products. Last year peace was declared, with Gypsum able to claim at least a moral victory. The result aided the company in making more money last year than in 1929 despite Depression...