Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since it proceeded from no immediate or striking cause. Statisticians opined that the franc is probably still some distance above the critical point of irretrievable decline. They recalled that the pre-War mark* took two years to fall from 48 to the dollar to 184, one year more to slump to 7,350, six more months to crash to 154,000, and a final five months to become invisible...
...rides a bicycle through New England peddling hardware. One of his German-Jew employers, Faber, is impressed with his warning that the jobber's day is done, that only manufacturers will survive the business slump. Faber's partner dies. Sam marries Faber's daughter Paula, not wholly for her dashing brunette looks. She brings a $25,000 dowry. Affairs at his and Faber's new nail factory in Bayonne, N. J., make him almost late for the wedding. That night he sits up late reading quotations on steel and pig iron...
...that she should fight?expand. He rushed off to fight. He obeyed an officer who commanded him to fire "just once more" a trench-mortar which he had warned the officer was unsafe. The mortar burst. Mussolini sustained 42 serious wounds, nearly died, lived to see Italy, although "victorious," slump into a period of post-War depression, discontent and unrest from which he felt that only the drastic "black shirts" could save her. To Signora Sarfatti, it was the Socialists who "deserted" Mussolini by betraying Italy?not the reverse...
...unlikely event of a commercial slump, the majority party would be a handy scapegoat. Clever politicians could then marshal the general discontent into a demonstration against the shadowy ethics of the aluminum case. An even more vital grievance can be found in the presidential practice of packing the supposedly non-partisan Tariff Commission with advocates of protection. As a means of holding the present elephantine majority, Republican prayers for prosperity would be more effective than abstract assertions of party rectitude...
Despatches reported a slight upward adjustment in the scale of pay throughout the French army designed to counterbalance the gradual slump in the purchasing-power of the franc...