Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Businessman inventories mean one thing only-unsold goods. When production outstrips consumption, inventories pile in warehouse and on shelf, and sales-managers grow obstreperous. When inventories pile as high as they did in 1929 a depression follows. When they pile as high as they did last summer a "recession" is the aftermath. There are innumerable theories (generally monetary or social) to explain why buyers rarely outnumber sellers but few economists dare ignore the storm warnings of mounting stocks. By last week it was clear that ever since April 1 inventories have been accumulating at a more alarming rate than...
...jail. The general notion is that Mr. Insull is a poor, infirm old fugitive whom the law is making into a scapegoat. Pity wells up all over the Windy City. Yet it was Chicago, not the law, which made the man poor by driving him away from his pile, which made him infirm by hounding him rather crudely in half a dozen European courts. The search for legal evidence of his guilt as an embezzler seems to have been a difficult task, but it was done at the insistence of the Chicago citizenry...
...lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still it was converted into a fort. Louis XIV, who disliked other men's monuments, had it blown up. Seven years ago another man who also liked monuments began to put it together again...
Violet Shore was the independent only child of a hard-bitten millionaire who had made his pile in the West and gone to Manhattan to raid the other corsairs. Gareth was one of a family of impoverished but socially correct little exiles who had been brought up to believe that they were all prodigies. Gareth's and Violet's childhood friendship might have developed into marriage, but Gareth had no money. Old Man Shore got his daughter the finest husband money could buy, and she spent the rest of her life making the best of the bargain. When...
...pupil who seemed to his teachers abnormal or subnormal in any way. Early last week two small boys heard whimpering sounds in a deserted ice house in a poor district of Chicago. Crawling through a broken skylight they came upon a 2½-year-old girl huddled on a pile of debris, her naked body black with frostbite. The boys whispered excitedly. Then an older boy, bold-eyed and sturdy in long pants, entered the ice house. "Scram, you!" he growled. The small boys ran off to the police. It did not take them long then to track down George...