Word: occuring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enacted against speculation in foreign exchange, and new and equally futile attempts are in process to somehow "stabilize" the mark exchange rate. At the present stage, it seems that either the German policy concerning the Ruhr must be abandoned, or else a political and social revolution in Germany must occur. The Ruhr occupation is proving expensive to France, but she can easily hang on there until the inevitable German financial collapse arrives...
...sudden increase in motor sales this spring largely caused the increase in tire prices. The ensuing price reduction is in part seasonal, since the heaviest tire sales always occur in the spring and demand slackens by July. But it also indicates that, despite the enormous output of motor vehicles this year, the tire makers have more than kept up with them...
...confused with the very similar looking ticker machine of the Consolidated Stock Exchange, so many of whose members have recently failed under distinctly peculiar circumstances. It must not be presupposed, however, that every failing brokerage firm has necessarily been "bucketing" its customers' orders. Brokerage failures can, of course, occur like failures in other lines of business, because of too heavy overhead or shrinkage in the value of the assets, which brokers usually keep invested in securities...
...will always be that which is supported by the peasants. Stanboulisky and his Agrarians succeeded in keeping the peace within the country and without and it will be but a question of time before they again hold the rein. In the interim Europe can only hope that nothing will occur of such violence as to upset the precarious balance of the Balkan Peninsula...
...will occur to many that the increase will work hardship to students who have difficulty in "finding themselves" when they first come to college, but who under the old requirement were able barely to "get by" as Freshmen and to make up their shortcomings later. But as a matter of fact, one-half of the men who now receive the minimum of two C's and a D the first year, fail before the middle of the succeeding year, and might better have been dropped at once; while most of the others, under the necessity of a higher standard, could...