Word: occur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice last spring President Hoover predicted economic upturns which did not occur. Last week he conspicuously refrained from any forecast as to when the depression would...
...What I am about to tell you must not be interpreted in an absolute sense, but merely as my viewpoint after long and diligent study of the situation. If no unforeseen and irreparable events, such as war, occur-and Italy has done, is doing and will do everything possible to avoid war-if the phases of the economic phenomenon are not disturbed by extraneous elements, then we are already leaving the night behind us and are walking toward the dawn. In other words the crisis has now touched its culminating point with the new American crashes...
...study of species is complicated in this and the succeeding zone, where the highest mountains of Guatemala are located, by reason of the changes in fauna which occur, not only as one ascends or descends a mountain peak through various levels in its 13,000 or 14,000 feet. In this arid subtropical plateau there are peaks which have birds of the tropical desert at their base, of the arid subtropical plateau upon their slopes, and of the temperate regions on their summits. All this complicates the task of a cataloguer. It is necessary to state at what altitude...
...raised the chalice to his lips, passed it to his teammates, then to the vanquished, and the work of three years of selecting men and mounts from both shores of the Atlantic and the expenditure of elaborate sums of money was finished. Not until 1933 will another Big Moment occur...
...result in smaller gross sales, smaller profits. When last week National Casket Co. reported profits of $925,000 for the year ended June 30 against $1,518,000 in the previous year, President Philip B. Heinz commented on this fact. But he also suggested an economic relationship which would occur only to the hypersuspicious investor. "Nature would also seem to play some part in it," said he of the smaller earnings, "for almost invariably in any depressed period the mortality rate is lower than in years of great plenty and good general business. We do not attempt to explain this...