Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week nobody had actually exploited a cent's worth of publicity out of the season's most publicized black man. when all of a sudden the valuable name of Owens appeared on a testimonial for the Republican Party...
...South China after three months of the most ferocious verbal strife between the Nanking Government and Kwangsi Province, with a formal military ultimatum being issued every few days by Premier Chiang to the Kwangsi generals or vice versa, sudden peace came this week. Instead of Generalissimo Chiang arriving in Canton with overwhelming force to master Kwangsi, he persuaded Kwangsi General Li Tsung-Jen to assume the office of Pacification Commissioner of Kwangsi under instructions from Nanking to pacify himself thoroughly and send no more ultimatums. Only logical assumption was that Li had finally got out of Chiang the bribe running...
...spite of a constant blare of publicity, sudden bursts of law-enforcement, there were more U. S. highway deaths in May, June and July 1936, than in the same months...
...field of big sellers and an unorganized field of small buyers no one could tell whether the recent platinum boom was caused by a rush of buying or a reluctance to sell. Last week the air was full of conjectures. Least ominous guess was that there had been a sudden rise in the marriage rate, causing a demand for platinum wedding rings. Retail jewelers in convention last week announced jewelry sales were up 30% from a year ago, sales of diamonds (with which platinum most often goes...
...their product, perhaps some day dumping their holdings and breaking the price. Another objection from the producers' standpoint is the fact that if any considerable quantity of platinum were held by the public any arbitrary rise in price would be checked by public selling. Last week's sudden rise in platinum prices, whether or not designed for the purpose, put the offerers of platinum certificates in a difficult spot. If they sold much metal at that high price, and the producers suddenly dropped the price, they would get a very bad name with their new clients. Treading warily...