Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a spell of stormy weather, the surface of Lake Michigan was calm off the shore near Holland, Mich., one sunny, windless day last week. Without warning a huge, smooth wall of water, at least ten feet high according to witnesses, rolled in from the lake, smashed the shoreline. Other big waves followed. Scores of rescues were made along miles of waterfront. Five persons were swept out into the lake by a ferocious undertow and drowned...
...must be renewed, forcing prices to turn upward. Last week, Standard Statistics saw no sign of U. S. business reaching this fundamental crossroad in the immediate future. Neither did Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres in his monthly sound-off. True, solid gains in crop prices on the report of bad weather and rust jumped Moody's commodity index to 136 last week. But a 25? drop brought the listed price of steel scrap to $10.75 a ton, positive proof that the key industry of steel had no immediate upsurge ahead. And the stock market last week again turned down without...
...farming weather has been so perfect this spring that even green telephone poles around Franklin. Neb., last week sprouted leafy branches. A more alarming manifestation of fertility are bumper crops impending in almost every State. With farm prices already 20% under last year, not since 1932 has the outlook for the U. S. farmer seemed more ominous. Hence, when Washington newshawks waited one afternoon last week for the Department of Agriculture's definitive June 1 estimate of 1938 crops, commodity exchanges all over the U. S. were jittery. The figures that correspondents relayed to their home offices were...
...score plus rumors of black rust last week jumped prices on the Chicago wheat exchange 4½? a bu. day after the report was issued. But at 80?, wheat was still 30? under last spring and it looked as though only a major crop loss from rust and bad weather or vast New Deal lending could prevent the price from going lower...
...fine October morning 40 years ago, the steamer Yukoner, bound upriver for Dawson with passengers and supplies, tied up for the winter in a small tributary of the Yukon, 1,400 miles from Dawson. The weather was getting cold, one of the Yukoners boilers had blown up, and she was in danger of being crushed in the ice if she remained in the river. For the captain, crew, passengers and the general manager of the company operating the Yukoner, her failure to reach Dawson was a catastrophe; in those gold-rush days a Yukon River steamer paid for itself...