Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Japan would surely ratify, the Administration announced through the Navy Department that the battleships Utah, Florida and Wyoming would drop out of the fleet line Oct. 1. The Florida will be scrapped. The Wyoming, dismantled, will serve as a training craft. The Utah will be towed to sea, sunk in target practice...
Board Troubles. Cheerless last week was the Federal Farm Board's first birthday. During the year Chicago wheat had tumbled from $1.20 per bu to 86¢. The Board had sunk $75,000,000 in the purchase of 60,000,000 bu. of 1929 wheat on which it stood to lose $35,000,000. Farm prices were at their lowest level in eight years...
...agricultural implement trade in foreign countries so as to enable those countries to better compete with the American wheat farmer?" On the platform beside him Chairman Legge clamped his cigar, made no answer. When his turn to speak came he explained that the Farm Board had already sunk in wheat twice the crop's proportionate share of the $500,000,000 stabilization fund. Said he: "Fellow farmers! At least I hope some of you are farmers. . . . Are you fellows mendicants or beggars that you want more [U. S. funds]? ... If you'd quit being a confirmed individualist and organize...
...been restricted solely to the oil industry, but also include different mechanical and electrical devices that are manufactured by the General Electric and Westinghouse Corporations, and I also de rive an income from banking, real estate, department stores, automobile business, manufacturing and many other enterprises. I have not sunk a lot of money in the South west Air Fast Express or in anything else, and for your information I could dispose of my inter est in the Southwest Air Fast Express for a nice profit...
Stockmarket traders last week found themselves forced back to the neighborhood of the line established by last November's panic. Stocks stood generally at or near their 1930 lows, which in several cases had sunk even under the 1929 panic figures. Lowered money rates and reduced brokers loans had no effect. It was generally felt that bear operators were ready and able to force continued lows during the present week...