Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member produced a best seller. A day or two later Pearson was summoned to the War Department. He found Secretary Hurley, white-faced, "in a towering rage," pacing up and down his office. Said the Secretary: "This is a terrible thing you have done, Drew. You are trying to ruin my career. . . . Damnable lies. . . . You wrote that I posture before a mirror. Look around my office. There isn't a mirror in it.* You wrote that I used airplanes at Government expense to make political speeches and that I had smashed up a $70,000 plane. I'm going...
...investment business and the control of a complex, pyramided financial structure which embraced $600,000,000 of banks, insurance companies, newspapers, realty and industrial concerns. When the whole enterprise crashed (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930) the reverberations sent banks toppling, stripped thousands of depositors of their money, brought grief and ruin to investors from Kentucky to Arkansas, even rumbled into Tennessee's capital...
According to church tradition, a basilica was built on the spot of the miracle of loaves & fishes. Long buried under seven feet of clay, this basilica was unearthed last week by Rev. Evarist Andrea Mader, director of the German Oriental Institute (Roman Catholic) of Jerusalem. The ruin is 170 ft. long, with a 66-ft. transept. Under the altar is a stone which apparently marks the spot of the miracle. In front are mosaics of serpents, sea birds, plants and lotus flowers. Behind are shown the loaves & fishes, with a sort of basket which is presumably one of the twelve...
...daughter of a foreman. Their son, young Brigg, despises his mother a little, courts his cousin Jane, loses her to another foreman, marries into the county peerage. With Young Brigg, the Oldroyd blood begins to thin out. Francis, his son, marries Jane's daughter, finds Syke Mill drifting into ruin after the War. There is not much that he or his boy David can do. After the crash, David jumps off the train on which his father is escaping from Ire Valley, starts back to make, presumably, a new beginning...
...raising the tone of the trade. Ten years ago it was not uncommon for a steel mill to receive a carload of scrap "top-dressed" with meaty chunks of good steel that concealed a load of bed steads, old fenders, tin cans, other metals and alloys which would ruin a batch of steel. One dealer foisted off a shipment of pipes filled with sand to increase the weight. All scrap is now graded, and priced accordingly. Highest grade is railroad car axles, standard grade is heavy melting steel scrap No. 1, now worth $9.00 a ton at Pittsburgh...