Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your otherwise judicious article on Rumania published in the Nov. 13 issue, is terribly defiled by certain low remarks against that country's dynasty. In my opinion those insinuations are old lies invented by cunning foreign propagandists and used time and again to discredit a country that in spite of its precarious geographic position and much diplomatic pressure from abroad, has done more than any other small Central European state to further the cause of democracy and social justice...
...spite of the temporary coal boom which war produced, anthracite ran into one of its characteristic price wars, and bituminous coal production, down 6% from the 10,450,000-ton peak hit week ended Oct. 26, was apparently headed back down to a 9,000,000-ton weekly rate...
...seeing any war business ahead, looking back on a very sour year, slipped towards another inventory crisis. (Last one: August-September 1939.) In spite of Texas' restricting crude production to only four days a week, gasoline inventories rose another 425,000 barrels to 73,696,000-approximately 4,000,000 barrels above the same week...
...spite of big dividends, stocks first stagnated, then slumped to 148.47 on the Dow-Jones average...
...which has happened to the furniture industry is not war. The something is that 1939 began with subnormal inventories and an incipient home building boom. Last spring, with builders turning out nearly twice as many new homes as in 1938, furniture makers prepared for a rise. This fall, in spite of World War II, it blew...