Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America returns to the gold standard with the gold content of the dollar reduced, as seems likely," Mr. Takahashi said, "Japan probably will be compelled thereafter to devalue the yen similarly in order to resume gold payments. Preparations for such an eventuality will be necessary to strengthen the nation's gold reserves...
...Servel stockholders: "A point has been reached in the development of the corporation's business where the proposed arrangement with Mr. Wenner-Gren will be of great benefit. . . . In addition to the benefits to be derived from Mr. Wenner-Gren's closer connection . . . the proposed arrangement will strengthen its cash position." Observers thought the real reason for the deal was Mr. Wenner-Gren's impatience for some dividends on some 500,000 Servel shares he already owned...
...spite of the fact that the team suffered from the loss of Henry M. Adlis who was counted on to strengthen the guard posts, his shoes were capably filled by Henry C. Munroe and Charles C. Gilbson. High-scorer for the home five was Leavitt S. White...
...private business affairs he was cited for contempt of the Senate, clapped into a Washington jail for 199 days (TIME. Dec. 2, 1929). Yet of all the black sheep of the Harding oil scandals he alone has been able not only to hold his own but also to strengthen vastly his business prestige. Now he even has as his largest individual stockholder righteous John Davison Rockefeller...
...play has one set and three characters, all women. Besides Miss Nazimova, they include Dr. Monica's lady architect roommate (Gale Sondergaard) and a pregnant servant girl (Beatrice de Neergaard) whom Miss Nazimova takes in. Nazimova has been giving her husband a dose of solitude to "strengthen" him, meanwhile undergoing an operation to enable her to have a child by him. Demoralized by the operation, she is further demoralized to learn that the father of the servant girl's unborn child is her philandering husband. Good study of lower middle-class psychology is the scene in which...