Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only struggle is against excessive action by the ultra-privileged classes, the great landlords, the capitalist and the clergy, which finds armed expression in Fascism. [In Catalonia] we have beaten Fascism and its privileges are a thing of the past which will not return. That, however, does not mean we shall imitate the Bolsheviki in racing toward an impossible Utopia...
...common stock. Like all beet sugar companies Amalgamated had a terrible Depression. It piled up a cumulative operating deficit of $3735,000 (since reduced nearlyone-third) which made it impossible under Utah law for it to pay any dividends. American faced the prospect of not getting any return on its investment for perhaps ten years. Therefore last spring it made a trade: it gave its holdings of Amalgamated stock plus $270,000 in cash to Amalgamated in exchange for two of Amalgamated's refineries, one at Missoula, Mont., another at Clarksburg, Calif...
...fixing ended, platinum rocketed above $170. Then in the early 1920's new platinum deposits were discovered in South Africa and in the late 1920's it began to be recovered in Canada's nickel mines as a byproduct. Not until Depression, however, did the price return to $45 and below...
...were established at Philadelphia and to this new satrapy, Julius Rosenwald, Chicago's great mail order magnate, sent his own son, quiet, hardworking, philanthropic Lessing Julius Rosenwald. The great Julius died, and four years ago Son Lessing became board chairman of the firm. Even then he did not return to Chicago. Once a week or oftener he taxis thither by air to confer with Sears' President Robert E. Wood, but his home is in Philadelphia and most of his work is done in his office in the tower of Sears Roebuck's great $8,000,000 store...
...suit the New York Yacht Club because it leaves little time to tune up an as yet unbuilt defender next spring. First job of the committee which the Club last week empowered to act on the challenge will be to arrange a not particularly sporting deal, whereby, in return for such favors as permission to have his boat towed across the Atlantic instead of sailing it, Challenger Sopwith will accept a later date...