Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been receiving large shipments of gold and silver. Some of it came to settle trade balances, and some of it represents capital seeking refuge in our sound currency. Various economists will tell you that this policy is likely to end our foreign trade; that it first will strip the world of gold and then our foreign trade dies. But we are not stripping the world of gold. We have more gold than ever before, but the world supply of monetary gold is also increasing rapidly...
...that a big debt is a good thing for a company because it makes everyone work harder but he saw no reason for paying 5% for nearly $40,000,000 of borrowed money when he could pay 4%. Moreover, he was planning for his Detroit plant a new wide strip sheet mill, which is an appallingly expensive aggregation of machinery. Upshot was that by December Steelman Weir and his two top executives frequently darkened the Kuhn, Loeb doors. With some inaccuracy, they were called "the three wisemen of Weirton...
They quarrel about everything, rudely finger-point each other's blunders in derisive front-page jibes. Their longest-standing squabble, concerning comic strips, reached a ludicrous end last week. It began immediately after Banker Meyer bought the decadent Post at auction from the McLean estate two years ago. Until then the Post had carried, exclusively in Washington, the comic strips of Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley, Dick Tracy. While the Post was in receivership, smart Editor Patterson deftly slipped in, snapped up the comic strip contracts for her Herald. Into court marched irate Publisher Meyer, insisting that...
...chimneys. In northwest Oklahoma a hundred families fled their homes. Every school in Baca County, Colo, was closed. In Texas the windswept hayfields were alive with blinded sparrows. Methodist congregations in Guymon, Okla. met three times a day to pray for rain._ Originally confined to a 200-mile strip between Canada and Mexico, last week's dust storm suddenly swirled eastward over Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas, crossed the Mississippi to unload on Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. With half the nation blanketed in silt, farmers everywhere were asking what was going to happen to the wheat crop...
...picturesque, possibly the ablest pitcher in the game. The World Series and the ballyhoo that surrounded his performance in it began to make him something else, a national hero. He and Brother Paul appeared in cinema and vaudeville. He got $15,000 as hero of a Grape-Nuts comic strip. He endorsed sweatshirts, baseball suits and liniment. When, two months ago, before going to Bradenton (whose Chamber of Commerce recently voted to change its name to Deanville), he won an argument to have his salary raised to almost $20,000, the fact made front page headlines. His biography...