Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois General Assembly to invent some means of raising cash. The General Assembly dallied and adjourned without giving Chicago help. Snarled Mayor Cermak: "They had it in their power to remedy this situation. When they adjourned without giving relief, it simply scuttled the ship, and Chicago is sunk...
...businessmen will regret the end of 1931. Still fewer could look on the state of trade & finance last week with anything but thanks that this December was half over. October opinion was that business was "scraping bottom." Since then, bottom has sunk lower. Unfilled tonnage orders of U. S. Steel Corp., industry's major barometer, declined in November to 2,933,891 tons, off 185,541 tons from October, 9,250,000 tons below the record peak of April 1917. It was the first time since 1910 that these orders had gone below 3,000,000 tons...
...success of "Mexico" is symbolic of another important change, the development of a more international point of view among the rank and file. The significance of the Hoover-Laval and Hoover-Grandi conversations, which would not have occurred but for the depression, has sunk deeply into the American mind. The posibility that Canada may desert the gold standard, brings home as nothing else could the interdependence of nations...
They buried him near Canterbury in a stone chapel. And before his grave they put a little marble slab that men who past that way might worship on their knees. The stone chapel has sunk beneath the weight of ages, but out in a little field there is a grass grown marble slab with hollows where rain water lodges and where knees have been...
...Avenue bridges over the Charles River, according to Captain Chapman of the Metropolitan District Police. These signals will consist of the three-colored automatic lights similar to those now used in Brookline except that they will be controlled by the magnetic disturbance caused by cars passing over metal plates sunk in the pavement. Neither road will have the right of way, but a car passing over the plates will set the lights in its favor if a car on the other artery is not already at the intersection. In periods of dense and slight traffic the signals will change...