Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only $3,730,000, smallest since 1918. Volume of August stock trading had totaled only 17,220,000 shares, smallest for that month since 1934. Gloom hung so heavy in Wall Street that a seat on the Exchange sold for $75,000, lowest price since April 1935. On the sole million-share day last week 143 issues found new lows. On a recession not so great as that of last June, Wall Street morale touched a new low for recovery, and brokers began holding a premature wake over fall business prospects...
...christened Virginia, first child born to English parents in the present U. S. Virginia Dare was nine days old when Governor White left his colony to sail back to England for more money and settlers. When he returned four years later, Fort Raleigh was a deserted, weed-covered ruin. Sole explanation was the Indian word CROATOAN, cut into a post beside the gate...
With that event, refiner-lobbyists would not be the sole losers. They had only been pulling chestnuts out of the fire. They would drop, at least for the time being, only a small share of their tonnage to island refiners, but U. S. beet and cane growers would be without the extended protection of the expiring Jones-Costigan Act, which has helped keep U. S. sugar more than three times as high as the world market price...
...amended by the Lords and passed by both Houses, the Matrimonial Causes Bill extends the grounds for divorce in England from adultery-previously the sole ground-to include also: i) desertion without cause for three years or more; 2) cruelty; 3) incurable insanity if under treatment for at least five years. In hopes of applying brakes to hasty British couples bent on too-swift marriage, the bill provides that a husband & wife must remain married for at least three years before either can sue for divorce, though the courts are empowered to waive this restriction "in cases of exceptional hardship...
...finance committee of Williams' Board of Trustees. But when the story was published as fact by the Springfield Republican, President Dennett broke his silence to announce that for two weeks his resignation had been sealed, delivered, and accepted by the trustees to take effect Sept. i. "The sole issue between the president and the board," barked Tyler Dennett, "has been whether he should be regarded as an employe of the board...