Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state of nerves. Publish periodical war scares. Impress governmental officials with the vital necessity of maintaining armaments against the "agreesions" of neighbor states. Bribe as necessary. In every practical way create suspicion that security is threatened. And if you do your job thoroughly enough you will be able to sink into your armchair and reach the contented words of Eugene Schneider, announcing a dividend to his shareholders; "The defense of our country has brought us satisfactions which cannot be ignored...
...corporate security offerings amounted to $381,000,000-lowest level on record. Of this $220,000,000 was for refunding old issues, leaving $160,000,000 for U. S. Industry to grow on. In no single month from 1924 through 1929 did the volume of new securities ever sink so low as for the full twelve months of 1933. But since the year end a roaring bond market has shown that the public will buy sound securities if corporations will issue them. Yet the total volume of corporate flotations in the first four months of this year, excluding refunding issues...
...Nazidom's case: ''Our winter relief campaign has proved we are pursuing practical Christianity, and we therefore are justified in checking attempts of the Church to meddle in politics." He promised that if Germany wins the plebiscite it will modernize the Saar's old mines, sink new ones and find new markets. Afterwards leaders of the Saar German Front promised him 92% of the vote (about 500,000). Setting her square jaw squarer, 52-year-old Sarah Wambaugh last week set out for her new job determined to hold both France and Germany...
Near Lansdale, Pa., Bell Telephone Co. workers dug a hole in the property jointly owned by Miss Sarah Buzby, 70, and her sister Kate, 81. Next morning the Bell men returned with a telephone pole, made ready to sink it in the hole. Miss Sarah & Miss Kate objected. The Bell men laid down the pole, began to explain. Miss Sarah & Miss Kate sat on the pole. Stymied, the Bell men fetched a second pole, sank it while Miss Sarah & Miss Kate guarded the first. Miss Sarah sawed the second pole through in two hours, apologized to the helplessly watching Bell...
...that Germany return to the League and to the arms parley: Germany only withdrew in the first place to give her State officials something to do; Britain and Italy don't really care if they ever hear from the Reich again; in fact, if all three countries were to sink rapidly into the sea tomorrow, it would only provide a human interest story for the Boston American, with cuts, and a new job for the Physics profs. The latest cheerful dispatch from Manchukuo, indicating the altruistic mission of a large body of soldiery to "deal with bandits on the Siberian...