Word: swiftest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French frontier after cracking through the forts at Liége in conjunction with the First Army. That Army, mobilized north of Aachen and led in under the Limburg tip of The Netherlands by General Alexander von Kluck, was, after passing Liége, to execute the widest, swiftest swing of all through Belgium, to envelop the French left flank and its unready British supports, to sweep around through Paris, to herd the French Army away from the city toward its eastern frontier where it might be surrounded...
Stocks flittered like feathers in the whirlwind. Sugar, metals, oils, chemicals, aircrafts caught the swiftest of the upward currents. In the vortex, some food stocks rose, some fell. Few behaved so wildly as Guantanamo Sugar, long unnoticed at ⅞, up to 6 (600%) on Tuesday, backdown to 3½ at week's end. Among Dow-Jones' 30 industrials could be found samples of virtually every form of windblown behavior...
...within three months beginning last August (1 brought the markets to the lowest point of all time, 2 was about the same as the decline in 1929, 3 brought the market to the lowest point since 1929, 4 was comparable to the drop in 1921's was the swiftest decline of U. S. business and finance in thirty years...
...several particulars the Recession is more remarkable than the Depression. It is remarkable because the 35% plummet from last summer's high is the swiftest decline in the history of U. S. business and finance. It is remarkable because the big, obvious factors which are usually held responsible for economic retrograde- swollen credit, top-heavy inventories, unmanageable surpluses-are not in existence. Business did overextend itself last spring, just before the President dampered the roaring commodity boom. But in large measure the principal cause of the Recession appears to be purely psychological, the result of Capital's mass...
...last year won seven out of eight Grand Prix races in Europe, easily outclassed Italy's Tazio Nuvolari, the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup winner. Rosemeyer got away fast at the start this week, temporarily yielded his lead to his countryman Rudolf Caracciola until the tenth lap. Noisiest and swiftest (160 m.p.h.) on the straightaways, Rosemeyer roared up a lead of two-thirds of a lap before the race was one-third run. Headed only when he dropped out for tire changes on the 79th lap, Rosemeyer soon caught young Dick Seaman of England piloting a Mercedes. Then for ten laps...