Word: slide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legendary reputation as an economic seer. Unhallowed by academic standing, he published Germany and Her Debts in 1923, a forecast of the European currency debacle. In 1926 it was The Coming Collapse in Rubber, about the same time the Stevenson restriction plan smashed and rubber started its long slide from $1.04 to 3� per lb. In 1931 The Coming Rise in Gold Shares was followed two days after Britain took sterling off gold by The Course of the Coming Boom [in Britain]. Just after President Roosevelt took office Major Angas wrote The Coming Rise in Wall Street, which was followed...
Last week statistical experts at the American Institute of Food Distribution sat down with their slide rules to answer a question which has troubled businessmen all summer: How much will drought reduce the income of U. S. farmers? As if unable to believe what it had discovered, the Institute tucked its findings into the inside pages of an obscure food pamphlet. Hardly had it been published before the Wall Street Journal and Dun & Bradstreet hastened to confirm the Institute's opinions, and huge, conservative Standard Statistics Co. Inc. rumbled into print with facts and figures. Off the slide rules...
...part of a full-page advertisement in the New York Herald Tribune appeared a facsimile of the following cablegram from London: "PRINCE WALES PRINCE GEORGE WEARING SLIDE FASTENERS ON TROUSER FLIES STOP LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN RECOMMENDED THIS IDEA TO THEM STOP FASTENERS USED ARE MANUFACTURED BY IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD BY ARRANGEMENT WITH HOOKLESS FASTENER COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA...
...After a three-week toboggan the stockmarket pulled up short last week, rose moderately. Volume of transactions, however, continued to slide down to new low records. In a short Saturday session only 249,300 shares changed hands-lowest figure since July 1932. Even the Toronto market was more active. Having nothing better to do, a Wall Street statistician sharpened his pencil, calculated the shrinkage in value of 100 listed issues. He found that the $4,136,000,000 paper loss since the Stock Exchange Control Bill was introduced last February would have: 1) bought all last year's wheat...
...much-used setting of an cerie castle, isolated in an Austrian wood with an atmosphere of heavily shadowed lighting and a background of student music, the two horror merchants settle many long-standing scores concerning wars and wives. Panels slide, black cats stalk, mysterious servants silently do their masters' bidding, and strong wills vie with each other. The loosely connected story fails to give even a logical order to the plot, and the result is an unconvincing succession of almost unrelated incidents designed to strike terror to the hearts of men. Even the "black cat" has nothing to do with...