Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pole vault, Sutermeister will have as his chief opponent Noyes. The results of the event are uncertain. The Crimson jumper has shown ability in past performances, but since the H-D-C indoor meet last winter, he has experienced a decided slump. In the broad jump, Donner of Dartmouth, and Rowe will be the contestants...
...great economic experiment. . . . We have undertaken to stabilize economic forces. . . . Our joint undertaking has succeeded to a remarkable degree. . . . We have succeeded in maintaining confidence and courage. . . . The acceleration of construction programs have been successful beyond our hopes. . . . The whole range of our experiences from this boom and slump should be placed under accurate examination with a view to broad determination of what can be done to achieve greater stability for the future. If such an exhaustive examination meets with general approval, I shall, when the situation clears a little, move to organize a body - representative of business, economics, labor...
That the Harvard Cooperative Society at the time of the stock crash last fall experienced a slump in business similar to that felt after the World War of 1914 was announced yesterday by G.E. Cole, manager of the concern...
...approach-none too assured-toward the method he developed in his later books. Paramount hack writers have made it better on the whole with the changes they introduce. Benson, who gets murdered, is a stockbroker. He has ruined several of his customers by selling them out in a market slump and each of the ruined traders has some other, private, reason for killing him. One evening they all meet at Benson's place in the country, where Detective Philo Vance is also a guest. Benson is killed and his murder later detected. William Powell, who has been Philo Vance...
...Yankees are a very highly-paid team. With his $80,000 Babe Ruth gets $5,000 more than the President of the U. S. Lou Gehrig makes about $30,000. Their troubles last year were the left side of the infield, Ruths sickness, Gehrig's hitting slump. They are depending on the batting and fielding of able Left Fielder Dusty Cooke and of Ben Chapman on third. Until the young pitchers show class, much depends on old timers Pennock and Hoyt...