Word: paced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the winter opera season, Manhattan's Metropolitan, like most large opera houses, presents six or seven operas a week. Such a pace would probably be impossible to keep up in any other branch of the present-day theatre. But a well-trained operatic cast can put an opera through its tricks with very little rehearsal, often manages to do so with none at all. Schooled in a standard series of movements and gestures for each role, a good average opera singer can be fitted into a production at a moment's notice, like a spare part...
Although prices last week did not keep up the pace of the previous week's uprush, they showed handsome gains. It was even proposed that SEC ease its rules against short selling to keep prices from scoring too many home runs. At week's end, Dow-Jones averages showed new 1938 highs for industrials, up seven points from the week before to 138.53, and for utilities up two points to 22.27; rails, up two points to 27.57, were higher than they have been for four months...
When Captain Spike Chace's swingers settled down to a smooth and normal pace last week, Yale had startled all observers with flashy time trials and its steady keel, evening up the betting odds that so far had stood for Harvard...
What made this mile-a-minute pace fairly easy was a 15% increase in locomotive efficiency and 15 to 30% reductions in train weight. Head end of the Century on its steam haul was a 96-foot, futuristically jacketed Hudson-type engine. Pulling the Broadway over its more rugged mileage was a Pacific-type locomotive, sheathed like the Century's, just as efficiently geared...
...from individual checking accounts in 274 cities). With the advent of Depression II, bank debits slumped at once as people tightened their purse strings. The total touched bottom in February. Subsequent figures, charted with seasonal allowances, show that since early March public buying has held at a fairly even pace. Last week's bank debits were $6,850,000, 18% under a year ago but the same as the previous week. Significance: though production of goods is still dropping, buying has apparently steadied-an optimistic sign...