Word: upturns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Market felt that the U. S. was at last in a definite recovery stage, regarded the present upturn as merely the beginning of the next boom. It saw no harm in getting ahead of the parade, as long as it knew that the parade had started. The spirit of recovery remains considerably superior to its statistics, but the Market was never one to live on bread alone...
Wherever it was, man found a way to go down under the water, to upturn the sod of quiet pastoral lands, to split open the face of majestic hills, and dig out coal...
...been just one long C# minor adagio lamentoso. Sales, which were level at 320,000 units a year in the decade before 1925, dwindled to 25,000 in 1932, a monetary drop from $204,000,000 to $18,000,000. Obvious reason: the radio. Then began a slow upturn. U. S. piano sales last year were 44,000; this year they may reach 60,000. And last week when 2,000 people gathered in Chicago for three conventions, the National Association of Music Merchants, the National Association of Sheet Music Dealers, the National Retail Musical Instrument Dealers Association, even...
...Manhattan, Arnaud Cartwright Marts of Marts & Lundy, financial counsel lors to philanthropic institutions, detected an upturn in church giving. From a peak of $850,000,000 in 1929, contributions fell to $510,000,000 in 1932, to $410,000,000 in 1933. This year Counsellor Marts believes the South and West will show a 10% to 15% increase in giving. In the North and East the decline will halt. But mission boards and welfare agencies will experience the upturn more slowly than churches proper...
What excited this oldtime salesman, who got his start lugging a sample 50-lb. radiator section around the Midwest, was the first upturn in his business in six years. And Mr. Woolley credited it entirely to the Federal Housing Act which provided, among other things, for partial Government guarantees on repair and remodeling loans up to $2,000 (TIME...