Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special Pennsylvania R. R. train carried the President out of Washington at midnight. Also aboard was Mrs. Roosevelt who had returned from her vacation just in time to join her husband on his. After breakfast next morning the special came to a leisurely stop at Hyde Park. The President descended a gangplank from the observation platform. Around him were hundreds of old friends and neighbors whom he saluted as "Tom" and "Joe" and '"Harry." A car sped him to Krum Elbow, the estate of his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who was on hand to greet her son. The Vincent...
...does," the Boston speakeasy propre-to remarked. "We were running fine this winter and none of the clubs cutting in on our little trade; when they passed the beer bill we were afraid it was going to run in us, but the people who drink heavily never stop, and it'll take a generation to get them Oct of the habit...
...third largest collection in the world, polsons them at the rate of 10,000 a day each summer to keep insects out. They have been troubled by a man in Honduras who sends up five crates full of skins once a month, although they told him last year to stop...
...time, then appeared as much as ten points lower. Confusion on the floor was at its worst. The ticker fell so far behind (it closed 50 minutes after the market) that some traders, not knowing how deep a fall might be in progress, dumped stocks as a safety measure. Stop-loss orders and impaired margins dumped still bigger quantifies of shares into the maelstrom. Not since 1929 had the market had such a day or such a three-days. Rumor ran wild: the Exchange was going to close; speculators were jumping out of windows; President Roosevelt had had an apoplectic...
...last week the Milwaukee Zoo guards heard people yelling near the bear den. A big polar bear was wrestling with a little black bear, holding it under water for longer & longer stretches. After a while, with some honey, the guards got the polar bear to stop playing. By that time the little black bear was drowned...