Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price at which cotton has never sold since.- The second, at io/ a Ib., made by the New Deal in 1933, was a success because the price climbed to 12?; and the Government could get out. The third of 12? made last year was followed by a slump of cotton prices to 117? with the result that farmers dumped their surplus on the Government which today is sunk with some 5,000,000 bales...
...time Giant Pitcher Arthur Nehf, Leiber, 23-year-old son of a Phoenix, Ariz, advertising man, joined the team in 1933, went to Jersey City, Memphis and Nashville for two years of seasoning, and so far this year has a batting average of .329. Last week, after a bad slump in which he came to bat twelve times without getting a hit, Leiber recovered his eye, made two singles and a timely double that helped the Giants beat Pittsburgh...
...better by selling his Federal securities on the market (last week Governments were up to 117) than by demanding par value from the Treasury. The offer is to expire Sept. 1 "unless extended from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury." If Government bonds start to slump, Secretary Morgenthau can be counted on not to extend it. Thus the offer will doubtless remain what it was meant to be, a solemn though meaningless gesture of U. S. good faith...
Although Julius Elias came out on top with 2,030,000 readers, everyone knew his Herald was losing money and nearly everyone predicted its circulation would slump heavily following the truce. Last fortnight Chairman Elias complacently told Odham's shareholders, in annual meeting, just what was what. Excerpts...
...fought and shortly Latin School had its own private fight. The school committee wanted to give it a broad, up-to-date program of studies. When the headmaster stood pat, the committee revenged itself by making fantastic changes in the curriculum, and the school went into a slump. After the headmaster died, his successor appeased the committee by adding new courses but left the classics in the saddle...