Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dividends. At around noon there came the no-bid menace. Even in a panic-market, someone must buy the "dumped" shares, but stocks were dropping from 2 to 10 points between sales-losing from 2 to 10 points before a buyer could be found for them. Sound stocks at shrunk prices-and nobody to buy them. It looked as if U. S. Industries' little partners were in a fair way to bankrupt the firm...
Last week Fred Conrad had shrunk to 140 Ibs. His father, still impenitent, but quite alarmed, made Holy Roller Dotson explain that even fasting can be overdone. Reluctantly Fred Conrad swallowed some beef broth...
...bust came, last week, when Britannia's owners, the Inveresk Pulp & Paper Co., found that the 33 pages of advertising per issue with which the magazine was launched had shrunk to four. Tactful requests that Editor Frankau modify his Lunatic-Fascist policies caused him to apply for an injunction restraining Inveresk Ltd. from interfering with his conduct of their paper. Since the editor had a contract, the only thing to do was buy him off. He held out last week for ?12,000-nearly $60,000-and finally got it. Wherefor the smug airs, the sherry...
...locomotive builders were constructing 73 locomotives for foreign roads. On Aug. 1, 1927, they had been building 209 such locomotives, and on Aug. 1, 1926, there were 517 U. S. locomotives under construction for the export trade. Thus the 1928 export production has shrunk to about one-seventh of its 1926 figure...
Clearly the League could not define a doctrine which U. S. statesmen have so often stretched or shrunk to suit their convenience, since 1823, when it was vaguely stated by U. S. President James Monroe (1817-25). Sometimes the Doctrine is shrunk to mean little more than that the U. S. will attempt to discourage European intermeddling in Latin America. Occasionally it is stretched to cover U. S. intermeddling in Latin America of a sort which Europeans call "frankly imperialistic...