Word: suit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whooping like their warrior ancestors, the Indians rode their own cayuses in hot pur suit of the outlaws, chased them out of deep canyons into trap corrals, where long fences led them into bottlenecks...
Frederick Ecker saw nothing but good in this vastness. Slight, white-haired and precise at 71, he appeared in a natty pin-stripe suit, only a slight trembling in his hands showing his nervousness. When he went to work as a Metropolitan office-boy at $4 a week in 1883, a single investment of $10,000 was big stuff. In his grating voice, Witness Ecker remarked: "I have seen that grow to where ten million is only in the same proportion that the $10,000 was. . . . I haven't fixed in my mind any place at which it would...
...upon which to build their characterizations. Burgess Mcredith's radical Quillery suffers especially from this limitation; Edward Arnold as the munition manufacturer is a bestial villain--which was certainly not Sherwood's intention in writing the play. Even the essential structure of the plot itself has been changed to suit movie audiences;--the pathetic attempt to tack a happy ending on a basically tragic plot detracts greatly from the dramatic force of the play...
...Index once more began an uptrend. The excessive inventories that had exaggerated Depression II were nearly liquidated, U. S. business's working capital position was beginning to show improvement, sales were rising. By June, conditions were such that stock prices began a sharp rise. Production followed suit...
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