Word: tobogganned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tramway, a 50-room lodge at the summit, an observation platform, a concessions building and a series of over-night cabius on the mountain top. There will be numerous trails for the expert and the novice skier, a bob-sled run, a ski jump, a skating rink, a toboggan slide, and open slopes...
That the stockmarket should react unfavorably to indications of continued pump-priming was proof of business' confusion. Heretofore, such pump-priming talk has boomed the market, and even Wall Street admits that sharp curtailing of government largess would toboggan stock prices. Last week's pessimism apparently stemmed from the realization that new deficits may mean new taxes. But this was one matter on which Congress gave signs of having its back...
...evils, undue restraints are being placed upon normal, proper action, thus creating abnormal market conditions. . . ." Same week that this tempered but widely publicized kick issued from the Exchange, stock prices, having climbed back to 190, again turned down in the beginning of the worst crash since 1929. As the toboggan gathered momentum, President Gay began to seem a seer and SEC was on the spot. SEC chairman then was amiable James McCauley Landis, who was so busy retiring to become dean of Harvard Law School that he scarcely bothered to reply to Broker...
...patient Mr. Chester and the rest of U. S. Management the wait was short. In August the business curve shot into the most precipitous toboggan since 1907. There have been a few cacklers in the rear rows but for Mr. Chester and all other responsible U. S. businessmen the Recession was entirely too serious for gloating. They expected trouble, though not so soon, and if it was welcomed at all it was only in the sense that they hoped it would drive home to the Administration and the public the obvious fact that Capitalism cannot function indefinitely without the confidence...
...three-quarter-mile toboggan slide led down into South St. Paul's Main Street where "Hook 'Em Cows" prepared to serve 15,000 quarts of stew cooked in a huge kettle outdoors. From the Ice Palace a four-block slide sluiced down Cedar Street. Parks and public rinks were crowded and daily parades of gaudy costumed carnivalists marched and countermarched to watch hockey games, dogsled races, ski jumping, snowshoeing. Inside the State Fair Hippodrome, Ralph Hachenbach of Chicago witj| his long-bladed racing skates sliced almost four seconds off the U. S. two-mile indoor record (time...