Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of the fact that the investigation's prime purpose was to find out why investors lost upwards of $5,000,000,000 in investment trust securities during Depression. But in 1936 the trust managers demonstrated that they had learned a lot since they took off with ceiling zero in the late 19205. Not only did they mount the witness stand in Washington with penitence and goodwill, but also wrote a good record in their annual reports. In a study of 47 general management trusts, Tri-Continental Corp. last week announced that the average gain for the year...
...With the zero hour for Freshmen but two weeks ahead, comes the annual scramble to choose a field of concentration for the ensuing three years of college. Each year at this time, the Yearlings come face to face with one of the most crucial decisions of their educational career. Selection of a field is no light, coin-tossing proposition, for a faulty or hasty choice in this matter often has far reaching consequences in upperclass studies. It is therefore essential to a Freshman's future welfare that he thoroughly investigate those fields which interest him, and, by logical elimination, select...
...ZERO HOUR-Richard Freund-Oxford ($2.50). Still another book about Europe today, by a journalist Austrian-born, German-bred. English-ripened...
...interior designed like a standard Pullman. Until nightfall he watches the flat Syrian terrain from, one of 17 windows. After a box supper, a native steward makes up the 14 upper and lower berths. To guard against sandstorms, the whole machine is airtight. To guard against temperatures varying from zero to 140° F., there is air conditioning. Fare...
...government service, 12-year-old Pushkin was sent there because it was free, spent six precocious years annoying his masters, writing light and scurrilous verse, getting into scrapes. He paid little attention to study. Once, when called on to solve an algebra equation, Pushkin guessed the answer was zero. Bellowed the master: "Fine! In my class, Pushkin, everything ends in zero with you. Take your seat and write verses." He graduated from the Lyceum without honors but with a rising reputation as a poet. Rejoining his family in St. Petersburg, Pushkin plunged into gay life with a whoop, for three...