Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record, a Republican Legislature began at once to prepare embarrassing features. The chief plan was to pass a State prohibition act, like the one Governor Smith got repealed, and dare Governor Roosevelt to veto it. That, they thought, would ruin him as a presidential possibility if by other bedevilments they could not prevent his re-election...
Gene Shank, who once held the record for looping-the-loop in an airplane, flew after a flock of blue teal in an airplane. He went 80 miles an hour; the ducks went much faster...
...would have been permissible for sugarmen to frown, last week, at nearly every piece of news which concerned their industry. Profound is the depression in the sugar business. Raw sugar has fallen from 5.09? a pound in Jan., 1927, to 1.91? last fortnight, the lowest price on record. Over the same period, refined sugar has slipped from 6.36? a pound to 5.10? , last week's figure...
...points as the market opens Wednesday, then churn back and forth. Kennecott copper up 12; Curtiss Aero, 12⅓; Wright Aero, 15½. Turnover: 4,894,670 shares. . . . More on Thursday, 5,037,330 shares, second "five million" day in history, only a handful less than on record-breaking June 12. Montgomery Ward closes at 366. Net gain: 17 points. Mounting, too, are Wright (6½-points more, 22 in two days), Coty, Inc. (10½). Where is the ticker? Over an hour behind (might as well have been a week) on Thursday, 47 minutes the day before, 46 minutes...
...Knut Hamsun, life rings true not so much in cataclysmic passions-love, hate, pride-as in lesser foibles, jealousies, spite, prevarication, occasional kindness. His meticulous record of pettiness is intense in its authenticity, disheartening in its cumulative drabness...