Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chairs instead of stocks to sit in. It makes it almost enjoyable to watch plays badly done, and I've had my chance to do that at the Repertory. But last night was different. Under the able coaching of Henry Jewett the acting company has come out of its slump and surprised us all. Odds on Enchanted April, the next production, have gone up to seven to three, favor of Mr. Jewett's squad. The present production is the best I have seen at this theatre since it opened...
...points (TIME, Oct. 4), following the publication of the Department of Agriculture's estimate of a superabundant crop. Forthwith, President Coolidge announced that the Farm Labor Board would extend a $30,000,000 credit to co-operative marketing associations which had been hit by the slump in cotton prices. The next day, the President appointed Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Jardine and Eugene Meyer Jr., Managing Director of the War Finance Corp., as a commission to devise orderly methods of selling the large cotton stock on hand...
...holdings were enormous. Singlehanded he prevented a real estate slump by buying lots for what he thought they were worth, at a price above the asking." When, in 1914, cotton went to four cents a pound, he worked hundreds of builders day and night to put up a 44-acre warehouse. Then he signed full-page advertisements in the press saying that he would lend six cents a pound on every pound of cotton stored in his warehouse. His storage charge was ludicrously low; his insurance rate lower than any other storehouse in the world. Millions of dollars' worth...
...last week in an incredulous vein, as though unable to believe that the Chamber, after two years of procrastination and folly, had been galvanized into rational action. So favorable was the reaction of international financiers that the franc touched 35 to the dollar again, after touching 50 during the slump which frightened the Chamber into supporting the "Sacred Union Cabinet." (TiME, Aug. 2.) Throughout the week, M. Poincaré conducted an experimental and educative campaign of inspired statements to the press-sought, without conspicuous success, to find and pave a way through hostile public opinion toward ratification of the Franco...
Purse-heavy U. S. citizens exchanged fat dollars at Paris for 34½ lean francs each-only an odd franc less than during the low-for-all-time slump (TIME...