Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand last spring. At that time the Federal Reserve Board was bearing down on credit. Fortnight ago it started to loosen up, persuading the Treasury to release $300,000,000 worth of "sterilized gold" (TIME, Sept. 20). As a stockmarket hypodermic, the gold news was notably weak, for it reminded Wall Street that almost anything can happen, but it again showed that the Administration not only possesses vast power over U. S. economy but is ready...
...separated the two boats, and neither Captain Tobias-who had previously lost two ships-nor his men were ever found. The longboat with its spindly mast and tattered sail struggled on. The concert singers cheered the company with song. Eighteen days from Wake Island, the forlorn, pitiable band, too weak to row or bail, burned black by sun, grounded their boat at Guam. Only account of this extraordinary voyage seems to have been published in the magazine, The Friend, which Colonel Bicknell ran across...
...explanation of the break the war-scare seemed pat, for commodity prices were strong and the currency of an interested power, France, was weak. Yet the European stockmarkets showed no similar apprehension. Markets in Paris and London declined but never approached a break.* As for the French franc, which sank to 3.53½ cents, lowest since 1926, the logical explanation was the fact that the Chautemps-Bonnet Government has had as little success as the Blum Cabinet in bolstering France's perennial financial position-clearly indicated last week by an inflationary Bank of France statement showing: 1) the highest...
...Doctoring Under Difficulties"-Wild Animal World goes into pure-anecdotage. There are fascinating tales of the infirmary: how cataracts were taken from the eyes of a rhinoceros; how a carrying case had to be invented for porcupines; how leather boots had to be made for a young elephant with weak ankles. And from the fund of experience laid up during 38 years at the zoo, Dr. Ditmars recalls the time a lion named Simba missed his birthday party because day before he had painted himself pea green by rolling around in his freshly painted cell. Once there was a seal...
Wightman Cup, The only thing that could be said in favor of a weak British team's chances against a strong U. S. team was that none of this year's British players was married and they would therefore, presumably, have no worries about absent husbands. True, two of the U. S. tennists- Alice Marble and Carolin Babcock-had sore backs and Helen Jacobs, in the year since she lost the U. S. singles championship to Alice Marble, had dislocated her thumb, torn a shoulder ligament and banged her knee with a racket. But pretty Kay Stammers...