Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Home Journal began the first crusade against venereal disease ever to appear in a magazine of general circulation. In a few short months it brought more than 75,000 cancellations of subscriptions. Yet Edward Bok, editor of the Journal, persisted in the face of threats of physical violence, business ruin, social ostracism...
...running to catch a crowded trolley car . . . A well-dressed woman from New York, puffing a cigarette in a corner of her mouth, pin a red rose on a shabby beggar who was blind . . . . A thousand black birds break their journey through the sky and stop at a marble ruin lit with moonlight . . . . Mussolini, the Pope and George Santayana...
...looking around at what the U. S. has become and back at what the South was, can see that the Civil War might have been a tragic mistake, can wonder whether reducing the South to the lowest common denominator of the Union was worth four years of blood and ruin. Both these points of view are implicit in Bugles Blow No More, which last week added one to the growing number of historical romances about the Civil...
Financial London was shocked. The market slumped badly. London financial papers described the excess profits tax as "crazy," as paving the way for "a Socialist Government to ruin the profitability of British Industry." Writing in the London Times, Economist John Maynard Keynes said: "It is like a tax on twins whose names are in the first half of the telephone book and happen to be born...
...board chairman, sends fleets of blimps over London carrying magnalite signs, soon sells all his stock to enthusiastic herds of subway riders. At this point another capitalist gets his hands on the only process that makes magnalite commercially usable. Faced with a long-drawn fight for control which will ruin all the little stockholders, grandstanding Dan Armstrong makes the best grandstand play...