Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broken down commercial loans by collateral. It used to state each week how many loans were secured by securities, how many by other property, or unsecured. To analysts of the figures this seemed most important, for if volume of commercial loans against securities was heavy (it sometimes ran more than 50% of the total) the indication was that the borrowing was not so much for commercial purposes as a mere hocking of securities to carry inventories, etc. Commercial loans rose at the end of 1936, for example, indicating apparently that business was expanding; actually much of the borrowing...
Those who witnessed Batsman Hutton's prodigious whacking at Kennington Oval last week will hand the story down to future generations: how it took the best Australian bowlers three days to get him out; how he was at bat 13½hours, ran 6½ miles; how the mayor of Pudsey sent him a telegram after every 50 runs; how, when he surpassed Don Bradman's record, the game was interrupted, all the players shook his hand, a waiter in tails and white tie scampered onto the field with a drink of lemonade, 30,000 spectators rose...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Mary Felecia ran out on a busy intersection, embraced Patrolman John Rom, cried, "I love you," embarrassed Patrolman Rom, tied up traffic. Said she at the police station: "When I see a man in uniform I just get the yen to hug and kiss...
...Judge Wilson refused a pregnant prisoner permission to leave jail and have her baby in a hospital. The Los Angeles Record ran his picture captioned "Dumbbell in Ermine." For the Record, there was no judicial reprimand...
...Canadian subsidy program, AAA started Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. on a wheat-buying spree. FSCC will buy 100,000,000 bu. around prevailing prices (62?), dump it abroad for whatever it will bring. Estimated cost: $25,000,000. Although Chicago prices shot up 3? a bu. as short holders ran for cover, likely ultimate effect of the dumping program will be to depress already-depressed world prices...