Word: slide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vicinity of the cyclotron, Dr. Lawrence's crew carry small electroscopes in their pockets which they discharge into a meter at the end of the working day to see how much radiation they have been exposed to. Since neutrons cannot be controlled by magnetic fields and slide easily through almost all substances except those rich in hydrogen, Dr. Lawrence moved the control panel 60 ft. away from the apparatus and surrounded the machine with tanks of water six feet high, three feet thick (every water molecule contains two neutron-braking hydrogen atoms). No one is allowed inside this barrier...
Since steel production is a basic economic index and since the stockmarket's traditional bellwether is U. S. Steel (whose operations last week were down a similar percentage"), a good case can be built to prove that railroad weakness is the governing factor in the current market slide. Last week this case was very much confused by the behavior of railroad stocks in one of the most tumultuous weeks in stockmarket history...
...account for the market's slide, businessmen have talked more & more of "a major business recession." Judged by steel production, which was off almost 40 points since the spring to 55% of capacity, and by the New York Times business index, which fell below 1936 for the first time this year, this view last week appeared well founded, but third-quarter earnings have been generally awaited as the ultimate index of current business...
Earnings statements last week were still too scattered to be conclusive and the market slide was not to be stopped so easily. It broke to the lowest lows since 1935, then continued dizzily downward driving Dow-Jones industrial averages some ten points lower to 125. U. .S. Steel led the way, going to a new bottom of $61.50-less than half of the year's high ($126.50). New York Central fell to $17.50, lower even than in 1932 when Delaware & Hudson's shrewd President, Leonor F. Loree, thought it a great bargain and bought his road...
Divided into two laboratory sections, elementary and advanced, the group will take up developing, printing, and enlarging, copying, photomicrography, and lantern slide work, portraiture, the use of filters, and color photography...