Word: reveals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Urged to reveal more recent corruption, Congressman La Guardia enthusiastically described the Indian Motocycle pool. Enlisting the aid of Manipulator Harry Content and Pressagent Plummer, Hansell & Co. assumed sponsorship for the stock late in 1929. Plummer shot stories of a 65% increase in orders to papers in Springfield, Mass, (home of Indian Motocycle Co.), which were picked up by the Boston News Bureau, copied by its affiliate, the Wall Street Journal. Activity of the stock increased, the price was jumped from $4 to $7.50 in the second week of January 1930. Then the directors of Indian Motocycle purchased the rights...
Statistics of Harvard Seniors reveal that while medicine, teaching, and law have claimed on an average 50 per cent of a class, 25 per cent of the Seniors enter some kind of business. Of the Class of 1932, only 8 per cent have jobs promised them after graduation, according to the Alumni Placement Service...
...most casual inspection of the annual operating statements of the Postal Department would reveal the illuminating fact that first-class (letters) is the only service to show a profit-that it nets the Government from 50 to 90 millions of profit annually...
...with the less-known figures that Mr. Bradford is most successful. Here the narrative details he supplies are fresher and more interesting, and he is well able to reveal an enigma at least where he cannot explain it. Discussing Talleyrand and Fenelon, two men strikingly similar in temperament, worlds apart in their actual careers, his impartial sympathy for both leaves the reader free to enter sympathetically into their characters. It is high praise for this kind of biography to say that it makes the reader eager to go beyond the information given, and study the characters at first hand...
...sluggish. He would not eat. His cavernous trumpetings became dismal, froggy croaks. Trainers, seeing the remaining half of a $10,000 investment shedding weight at the rate of 10 Ib. a day, called doctor after doctor, but no physician's hand could feel that flapping pulse, no stethoscope could reveal the disorder beneath a hide thick as a truck tire. Last week Goliath II still lay in Sarasota and the Circus went on without...