Word: staggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Failure to stagger the maturities of bond issues. To this fault of simple financial naïvete are partly traceable the troubles of Detroit which has called on her creditors to refund $290,000,000 of her borrowings. Detroit, with depleted revenues due to Depression and banking crises, is faced with $138,000,000 of bonds due within the next ten years...
None of this year's grain "racers" had a radio. Ten of them belonged to Captain Gustaf Erikson, a retired master mariner of Mariehamn, Finland. Though every ship had a 100 A-1 rating at Lloyd's, one or more might vanish, capsize or stagger into port without masts. Running far out of the steamer routes, few planned to show lights at night. Most would take four months, some five, a few would crowd to get in under three months...
...Gardena, Calif., a Federal Prohibition agent drove past a house, saw a pig stagger out of a ditch, attack an automobile tire, saw another pig try to climb over a fence, decided the pigs were drunk, stopped, investigated, found a still, arrested Dominic Caprini...
...Novelist Somerset Maugham, a guest broke in the Fells' room when he heard Mrs. Fell's screams, found Fell on the floor gasping, "I did it myself. It's my fault." Mrs. Fell testified her back was turned when she heard him rise from the table, stagger and fall with a big table knife in his chest. She pulled it out, had hysterics. His stepfather Alexander Van Rensselaer, president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, called Fell "not the kind of man to take his own life . . . not a quitter." In 1923 Fell was fined $500 and costs...
...Lwow's Commercial Academy savage young Gentiles formed a double line with clubs in their hands. All Jewish students, even the girls, were forced to run the gantlet, to stagger away with bruised bodies. Jewish passengers were dragged off street cars and clubbed. Somebody threw a bomb into Gmilus Chassodim Synagogue, blew out all the windows...