Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Protests flowed in to General Johnson's desk, which he keeps bare as a ballroom floor at all times. The Alabama crowd wailed that NRA's illegal socialization of the industry would ruin them. The Appalachian operators stormed violently against unionization, restrictions on company stores and houses, prohibition of child labor. Others criticized the pay differentials between various districts. They pointed out, for example, that nothing but the Ohio River separated Western Kentucky's $3.84 per day scale and Illinois' $5. Having listened to such talk for six weeks, General Johnson was unmoved. With...
...time her guests assemble in the drawing room, the picture has revealed their private lives, rearranged their relations with each other. Carlotta Vance has sold her stock in Oliver Jordan's shaky shipping company. Packard-pretending to be Jordan's ally while he tries to ruin him-has bought it. Kitty Packard, because she thinks her social ambitions might be hampered if her husband swindles their hosts, blackmails him into giving it back, infuriates him by announcing that she has a lover. It never occurs to Packard that the lover might be young Dr. Talbot. Mrs. Talbot finds...
...appoint a Coordinator of Railroads, to affect economics and to find means to prevent what appeared to be on-coming financial ruin...
...Real estate booms which get cities hopelessly in debt, ruin citizens. Biggest single crop of city defaults, in Florida, was traceable to this cause...
...since a wild Friday in September 1869 when Jay Gould's attempt to corner the LT. S. market ran the price up to $162 and left behind a trail of ruin and corruption has gold been an active speculative medium in the U. S. Desultory trading continued to 1879 when gold payments were resumed. But from then until last April with the U. S. Government firmly tied to gold there was no incentive to speculate. With the U. S. now off the gold standard, gold miners, lacking a free supply & demand market and confronted with rising costs, are still...