Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...securities because they liked their engraving. Their purpose was to build up a mass of new credit which member banks would take and pass along to deflated Business. But member banks were not carrying out their end of this credit-expansion scheme. They let the Reserve's funds stack up unused at the Reserve banks instead of piping it out to customers...
...late spring of each year the hay crop is harvested, and all the hay piled in neat little stacks. At a given signal the freshman class rushes out and sets are to each and every little stack-- provided, of course, the campus cops lack the necessary strength or vigilance. Then, true to Stanford's symbol, the In- dian, all freshmen cavort merrily around the fires. In the end, the entire class faces an assessment, which is always paid without a murmur. It's just another tradition...
...cause of depressed prices. Almost at the same hour the Department of Agriculture was distributing its July 1 wheat crop estimate. This year's anticipated harvest was set at 869,013,000 bu., an increase of 5.583,000 bu. over last year's bumper crop. Such harvests stack one surplus on top of another, send prices down correspondingly. Acreage which the Farm Board has been pleading with growers to reduce 20% was cut less than 5%. While flaying short- sellers, President Hoover made no reference to the stubborn refusal of farmers to plant less grain...
...cost that already rose close to $200,000.000. But the Army insisted on 200 ft. clearance to accommodate the masts of the Leviathan, Majestic, Olympic, Bremen and Berengaria, which otherwise could not get above 57th Street. The Bridge company pointed out that 135 ft. was the highest liner stack, offered to put collapsible masts on vessels that could not get under their span. The Army's decision was a victory for the Fifth Avenue Association and other civic groups who argued that the congested midtown district could not absorb new traffic from the bridge...
...sent half a hundred Prohibition agents under Col. George Seavers of San Francisco swooping down upon Las Vegas. Twenty-five night clubs, saloons and roadhouses were raided. Lakes of liquor were seized, five breweries put out of commission. Fire threatened the business district when enthusiastic agents ignited a great stack of mash barrels. Arrested were 80 bootleggers, bartenders, speakeasy proprietors, girl entertainers. After a twelve-hour "clean-up," Las Vegas was reported to be as Dry as the surrounding sagebrush. Declared Col. Seavers...