Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With a sigh...
...began: "Comrades, I have bad news for you. The Osoaviakhim balloon met disaster yesterday afternoon between 3:30 and 5 o'clock near the village of Potisky Ostrog [150 mi. southeast of Moscow]. The balloon and gondola crashed and the three aeronauts were killed instantly." A mournful sigh swept like a wave through the hall. Then: "It seems the disaster was complete-not only the pilots but the gondola and its scientific apparatus were utterly lost." Spontaneously the delegates rose, chanted the stirring Soviet hymn to the dead. But outside on the streets jubilant paraders continued proudly to congratulate...
...defaulted, foreclosed property became practically unsaleable and investors demanded that the companies make good their "guarantees."' When the situation threatened the whole banking equilibrium, Manhattan bankers, backed by the RFC, made futile credit gestures. By that time, however, most of the large companies were quite insolvent. With a sigh of relief Commissioner Van Schaick clamped down on them during President Roosevelt's March Moratorium...
...executive orders tightening the Government's control over gold and foreign exchange. Speculators hailed the five proposals as inflationary. Stocks soared, wheat jumped 4? a bushel, cotton $2 a bale. But most businessmen, who regard the dollar's stability as more important than its value, heaved a sigh of relief. And their feeling was reflected in a rising market for both Government and corporate bonds. Said the Baltimore Sun: "It is a paradox that a Presidential message which proposes to perpetuate revolutionary changes in the nation's monetary system should carry encouragement to conservatives, and yet that...
...admired bits like a graveyard dance by an idiot girl and a candlelit trial of Joe The Fool for bigamy before 70 rabbis but found the rest dull, pompous, obscurely symbolical. After three nights. Mr. Frohman closed his first production in 22 years with an old man's sigh of dismay...