Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month appealed by proclamation for mortgagees to suspend foreclosures until the General Assembly could act, New York Life led off fortnight ago with this voluntary farm relief. Of the $1,666,000,000 which 52 life insurance companies have invested in U. S. farm mortgages, $455,834,078 was sunk into the black soil of Iowa. Iowa farm mortgage holdings of the principal life insurance companies: Equitable of New York, $90,040,095; Metropolitan, $64,422,538; Equitable of Iowa, $50,098,679; Northwestern Mutual, $40,809,401; Bankers of Iowa, $35,130,952; Mutual Benefit, $34,859,529; John...
...bewildering moment it seemed as though a ventriloquist were taking part in the performance of Die Walküre given last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Soprano Frida Leider, singing Brünnhilde, had sunk limply to the ground, crushed by Wotan's wrathy reprimand. Feebly, brokenly she started remonstrating with him. Then her voice died away. Another soprano voice, shriller, more biting than Madame Leider's, came out from the wings, sang until Madame Leider, regaining her composure, stood up and finished the performance so capably that most of the audience thought their ears...
...been damaged or destroyed by fire: the luxurious Paris, damaged while lying passengerless and crewless at her pier in Le Havre in August 1929; the ancient Asia which burned and sank while carrying Moslem pilgrims to Mecca (TIME, June 2, 1930); and the brand new Georges Philippar, burned and sunk at sea last May with a loss of 52 lives while returning from her maiden voyage to the Orient. Since French Indo-Chinese Communists had openly threatened the Georges Philippar, suspicion of incendiarism was reasonable, but the French Government, though it investigated, has kept all details a state secret...
Graham showed a definite engineering accomplishment with a low-sunk chassis made possible by running the rear axle through the frame instead of under...
...York, E. P. Dutton & Co., publishers, revealed that Swedish Dr. Axel Munthe, hoping to increase his fund for the establishment of a bird sanctuary on the Island of Capri, had sunk the fat royalties from his long best-selling The Story of San Michele in Kreuger stocks...