Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instant effect of his offer of a $3.85 bond conversion rate when the monetary exchange was above $4.85 was to stop the decline of the dollar and give it an upward fillip. Simultaneously the recent Wall Street boom, partly induced by a falling dollar, collapsed (see p. 45). On the theory that Chancellor Chamberlain's fiscal acumen is very great indeed, he was credited with a deliberate and successful move to start sterling downhill...
...defective transformer brought all passenger elevator service to a dead stop in New York's' 77-story Chrysler Building, marooned 14 passengers in cars between floors. In the crowded main floor lobby Landlord Walter P. Chrysler waited 25 min. while mechanics tried to fix his elevators, finally ascended to his office on the 56th floor in a slow-moving freight elevator. Hugo C. Leuteritz, communications engineer of Pan American Airways, would not wait, stomped up 59 flights to his office...
Just a few more notes will clear up the list. The relief map of the United States at Babson Institute in Wellesley Hills is the largest in the world. . . Stop at the Administration Building on Hill side road near Houghton's Pond in the Blue Hills Reservation. . . If you can bear to visit transatlantic liners (or can pretend to be looking them over with an eye to choice) the Italian, Hamburg-American, Cunard and White Star lines welcome visitors. . . If the dogs of conscience drag you to the Art Museum, don't forget you can get lunch on the premises...
Nazi newsorgans promptly claimed that this "spiritual nation" will not stop at the frontiers of the Reich. "After the Constitution of the Evangelical Church of the German Nation has been acknowledged," crowed the Nazi Kreiiz Zeitung, "the Evangelical Church of Austria will belong to it and the Evangelical churches of Transylvania, Jugoslavia, the Baltic regions and lands across the sea will be able to conclude working agreements with this really German Evangelical Church...
...ignore all the international issues which are of such vital significance to her and which might involve her in another war. It must be the determined policy of the Administration to bear its share in the task of keeping the world's peace, to work for disarmament and stop building battleships, and, as President Roosevelt said in his inaugural, to play the role of the good neighbor in international affairs...