Word: slide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest argument for donations which Mr. Osborn has is the museum's increasing popularity. Attendance . exceeded 1,000,000 in 1932 and rose steadily to 2,491,582 last year, will surpass that this year. Through motion picture and lantern slide shows and circulating collections, curators last year reached another 40,000,000 minds...
...point than of Mr. Gay's. In London, where commodity prices cracked early last month after Franklin Roosevelt's pronouncement on their high levels (TIME, April 19), stock speculators rushed to sell on news of Britain's higher industrial profits tax. In New York the market slide which began in March became a small avalanche, carrying U. S. Steel common down 10 points to 98, Chrysler down 6, Allied Chemical down 13, and the Dow-Jones industrial stock average down 6½ points, including the biggest single day's drop since July 26, 1934. Market observers...
...problems put up squarely to engineering science was that of landslides at the east bulwark. Last year while the excavators were scooping earth from a large gulch that runs 175 ft. below the low water surface of the river, 200,000 cu. yd. of clay began to slide down at the rate of two feet an hour, faster than the power shovels could get it out. The contractors were faced with a delay of several weeks and an additional excavation cost of $200,000. The engineers decided to try an old trick invented in Prussia but never before used...
...Westminster Abbey in 1911, it was announced last week that Princess Elizabeth, 10-year-old heir to the Throne, will profit by this lesson of experience. Her Royal Highness will be supplied with a very short train not apt to trip her, a very light coronet not apt to slide off in any case, equipped with a strong elastic band...
Colossus. The last circus that tried to slide into Manhattan under the Ringling shadow was Sells-Floto. "Mr. John" stifled this competition in a characteristic fashion...