Word: subcellar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without the Bonus, the subcellar fundamentals of Supply & Demand are still in favor of better business. As a result of Government spending purchasing power has exceeded general demand for nearly three long years. Inventories have declined steadily. In the opinion of Economics Statistics Inc., continuation of Government spending "will soon, if it has not already done so, reduce inventories to such a low point that it will be necessary for production to be increased not only in line with current demand but at an even faster rate in order that inventories may be replenished." Continued this specialist in supply & demand...
...panels slid back, revealing thousands of dollars worth of liquor. In Rettich's Warwick house the raiders scraped some whitewash off a brick pillar in the cellar, found and turned a key. A great slab of concrete rose quietly out of the floor, opening the way to a subcellar. Steps led from the subcellar to a huge vault in which were found three machine guns, 25 Winchester rifles, pistols, much ammunition...
...tube mills, hydraulic shears, hot saws, cooling beds, forging presses, pickling equipment, etc., etc. Companies like Westinghouse and General Electric share hugely in the construction of steel mills, for almost all steelmaking machinery in electrically operated, but the machinery itself is produced by highly specialized concerns. And in this subcellar of a steel civilization are two companies that together supply most of the biggest and toughest machinery made in the U. S.: United Engineering & Foundry Co. and Mesta Machine Co., both of Pittsburgh...
...murders of Edward Albert Ridley and his secretary Lee Weinstein in their gloomy subcellar office in Manhattan's Allen Street (TIME, May 22): the arrest of one Arthur J. Hoffman and one George Goodman, accountants, for grand larceny. Working on one of many baffling angles, some of the 65 detectives assigned to the case discovered that Lee Weinstein, who succeeded a previously murdered secretary of Old Man Ridley, had used Accountants Hoffman & Goodman to witness a fake will which the half-blind. 88-year-old eccentric millionaire had been tricked into signing. The will, modeled after that...
...clerk, had tried to get him on a telephone in the upstairs garage, where the stables used to be. Not until after one o'clock did the garage proprietor bother to go down to where the strange pair worked at their accounts. At the bottom of the subcellar stairs, visible by the light of one yellow bulb glowing dismally in the office, the garageman found Old Man Ridley. His curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone, his head had been bashed many times with the swivel stool. In the ghostly underground quiet...