Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the Government paid cotton farmers some $100,000,000 for plowing under about one quarter of their crop, only to find that the harvest of 13,177,000 bales was even larger than the year before. Good growing weather and subterfuges on the part of the farmers were jointly responsible...
Dealers publicly moaned that the prices were only one-third of what they ought to be, but privately were thoroughly satisfied with this open-market test of their fair-weather commodity...
Professor Neilsen is able and popular but his students at N. Y. U. never behave like that. Last week's pupils were the 210 most intelligent inmates of New York's Sing Sing prison. Professor Neilsen's lecture on Business and the Weather was second in a series of 13 to be volunteered by the faculty of N. Y. U.'s School of Commerce, Accounts & Finance. First lecture last fortnight was on Money. Future subjects: Real Estate Outlook; Plans for Relief of Depression; How to Evaluate Industrial Securities; Corporation Financing...
Sing Sing's lecture room, a long, bare hall set off by iron wickets from its library, was packed last week when fat, jolly Professor Neilsen walked in without a guard. He found his listeners most interested in aviation and weather forecasting. He had to translate "cyclonic and anticyclonic disturbances" into "fair and foul weather,' but went away with the opinion that 20 or 30 of his listeners had "very high college intelligence." Said he: "There was no difference in talking to them and in talking to a group of college freshmen...
Members of the paper's staff bought in desks, typewriters and office equipment of the Transcript for $15.84. Another bought in the Transcript's $18,500 press for $41.93, deeded it right back to Editor Baker. In zero weather, Sheriff F. H. Brandt went about the town selling out other Susquehanna concerns. A house fetched 81? a lumber yard, $7.98, automobiles, 25?. Because Susquehanna townsfolk were united allies of Editor Baker, all the properties went back to their original owners. The Canawacta Water Company lost $800 by the sales...