Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 7, 1934 Captain Robert Willmott of the Ward Liner Morro Castle suddenly died. Chief Officer William Ferdinand Warms took command. That night, a few miles off Asbury Park, N. J., the Morro Castle burned, with a loss of 134 lives, in one of the greatest U. S. marine disasters (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). Though Acting Captain Warms was the last man to leave his ship, a court presently convicted him of criminal negligence, sentenced him to two years in jail. Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, who abandoned ship in the first lifeboat, was convicted on the same charge, given...
...world-wide break in commodities which left copper 1½? below its 17? -per-lb. high, lead off 1¼? (high: 7¾? per lb.), rubber off nearly 3#162; (high: 27#162; per lb.), wheat off 6#162; (high: $1.45). Most other staples tumbled proportionately, while the stockmarket took the deepest dive in nearly three years. At week's end such speculative stalwarts as U. S. Steel, Johns-Manville, Air Reduction, Anaconda Copper, International Nickel, International Harvester, were selling from 10 to 28 points below their 1937 highs...
...experience. Committed to a public power ownership platform, Governor Meier was thwarted by thrifty opponents who objected to his private telephone from capitol to store, his installation of the first private lavatory in the Governor's office. Furthermore, his pet financial hobby, the American National Bank of Portland, took the Bank Holiday of 1933 with such relief that its revival was a problem. Pacific Coast businessmen have long known that Julius Meier sank most of his personal fortune in the bank. Last week they learned from Meier & Frank's statement to SEC that the store itself had advanced...
...background of the "strange, mystifying events" related in General Graves's America's Siberian Adventure. President Wilson's instructions were specific and General Graves stuck to them: to protect Allied munitions stores against German seizure, not to interfere in Russian internal affairs. The British and Japanese took a different view, supported the White Russian armies openly, laid down a barrage of vilification against the U. S. for not joining...
...butcher's and baker's grew narrower, Alec's creative flow dried up to nearly nothing. As household chores became major problems, his and Kate's intercourse became a continuous quarrel. At last he threw up the dry sponge, gave up his thankless Art, took them all home to find a more comfortable way to live...