Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year one more odd piece of canvas has been added to the New Deal's present makeshift policy. To meet the threat of a 16,000,000-bale cotton crop, which knocked the price from 15? to 8? per lb., the New Deal broke out a well-worn storm sail in the form of loans to cotton growers (TIME, Aug. 23). Hastily arranged just before Congress adjourned, the cotton-loan program was financed by Jesse Jones's RFC through the Commodity Credit Corp...
...Maurice J. Tobin, whose election to the School Board Mr. Curley made possible. During Mr. Tobin's term of office one of the gravest scandals in the history of the Board broke out, resulting in prison terms for two and ruined reputations for several others. Mr. Tobin weathered this storm by declaring that he was ignorant of the whole affair...
Hardly had the stockmarket quieted before a deflationary storm hit the world's metal markets. In London a bad break carried the price of tin to 56? per lb., down 10? from the year's high. Panicky selling spread to other metals, first in London, then the U. S. Two successive cuts in U. S. copper left the price at 12? per lb., compared to the March high of 17?. Zinc fell from 7¼? per lb. to 6½? and lead to 6? per lb., having touched 7½? early this year...
...Though he survives both the Red-&-White civil war and Zena's death, Julian eventually discovers no better niche for himself in the post-War world than free-lance journalism, is last seen heading for the U. S., on the apparent principle of any port in a storm. Dubiously optimistic last line is supplied by a farewell telegram from the woman Julian has lately left, informing him that she is to bear his child, heir to the civilization Europe has squandered: "He lives who will...
...Raymond Walsh, whose two-year concluding appointment aroused a storm of protest last spring, has handed in his resignation and is now doing research work for the National Labor Relations Board. According to close friends, the Economics instructor resigned because he was "disgusted...