Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile blow and the barometer has dropped out of sight. Hatch covers are sucked off like corks out of a bottle. The funnel is gone, the boilers flooded; there is no food, no water, no light. The Chinese crew is huddled in a corner like a half-dead pile of fish. The officers, although still on their feet, are as helpless as the Chinese, give off just as sharp an odor of ammonia-the smell of fear. Only two of them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have...
...impression which David Lasser would like to erase is that the Alliance wants to perpetuate Relief. He and his board declared: "Those whom we represent do not desire to help pile up Government deficits: do not desire to remain on the Government payroll one day longer than necessary. . . . We . . . understand that a works program and relief alone cannot solve our economic problems or end unemployment and insecurity. Such Government aid can but mitigate the suffering...
...being whipped out into Long Island Sound. Dwight Long did his radio stint, then ventured to the WJZ audience an anxious SOS: ". . . All I own in the world is aboard the Idle Hour. . . ." Next day they found her, mistress of 35,000 miles of angry oceans, a splintery pile on Long Island's rocks...
Born of the boom and orphaned in 1929, network radio grew up lustily through the lean decade without ever having to go to a foundling home. In only one year, 1933, did it fail to pile up gross revenues to top all previous years. In 1934, gross incomes exceeded 1933's by 35.4%, 1932's by 9%. Radio's 1933 depression was not only brief, it was also noteworthy for being tardy, for other industries were near bottom as early as 1932. So network-sales experts have derived from that experience their characteristically optimistic axiom that...
This last pile consisted of $520,510 in cash, $1,233,748 in miscellaneous notes, $2,000,000 in real estate, $8.264,004 in Government bonds, $24,489.398 in stocks. Mr. Mellon's holdings showed he had a taste for "blue chips." Among his assets...