Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week out of the black cloud of dust which still hung over drought-stricken Kansas, Governor Alfred Mossman ("Alf") Landon sped to Washington to see about $500,000 worth of free gasoline from FERA to power 200,000 tractors to plough furrows to stop the ravages of Kansas' winds. While he was getting his gasoline he stopped long enough to mention that in May the Republicans of ten Midwestern States were planning to convene and write a platform for a bigger, better, sounder and more liberal G. O. P. Head of the resolutions committee at this meeting would...
...stop tearing ourselves to pieces!" cried France's Big Flandin, smiting the tribune. "Let us re-establish union! ... If you think this Government can lead, if you have confidence in us, put an end to constant criticism, to these endless ambushes. Give us your full co-operation...
Last week the Ballet made its last stop in Manhattan where the dancers gave five performances and sailed home on the Ile de France. The tour had grossed $1,000,000. Enthusiasm had run high. But Company Manager David Libidins was vastly relieved when he saw the gangplanks lifted. It had not been easy to mind 52 dancers, seven mothers, two fathers, 21 orchestramen, a marmoset, four turtles, a rabbit, a dog. To accommodate the troupe there had been six Pullmans, four baggage cars and a diner, besides the two-room auto-trailer which Leonide Massine, maitre de ballet, used...
...apparent reason one trader sprang forward to the ring, announced he would sell cotton for 11.80? per lb. - 20 points below the price at which that staple has been virtually pegged by the Government for seven months. A violent wave of selling broke over the market, uncovering nests of stop orders. The price fell 10 to 20 points on each transaction. May contracts sank to 10.25?. Brokers snouted themselves hoarse as orders to sell poured in from the South, from Europe, from the Orient. Near-panic spread to the New Orleans Cotton Market, to the Stock Exchange, to the grain...
...desperate flies that came into his parlor. His comforting message: The race of men is what counts, not the individual. Finally even Dr. Endicott got it: "No matter. A few are hurt, here and there. Some fall down, and have to be gathered up. But nothing can stop the Long Parade. It carries...