Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reminded of another design, just as elaborate and colorful but more serious and a million times as big. To sketch this second design adequately requires a good-sized map of the U. S. The sketch can begin almost anywhere-on the coast of Maine, in Florida, or at the bottom tip of Texas. There is an irregular quadrilateral of it in North Carolina. A vast, nearly solid mass of it spreads east, west and south from Chicago. There are patches of it in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri. It almost blots out New Jersey and New Hampshire, parts of Pennsylvania and Kentucky...
...Kizhuyak Bay, Alaska, one Anton Larson, 68, lost his false teeth as he pulled his boat's anchor out of ten fathoms of water. He dropped the anchor, took a deep breath, pulled himself down the chain to the bottom, rescued the teeth...
...plans Architect Wright has "overturned the pyramids and lengthened their lines perpendicularly." Thus, at the top the towers are much larger than at the bottom. Each tower rests on a gigantic concrete pedestal; each is supported by a core of solid concrete through the centre. Architect Wright explained that his scheme was specially good for a crowded city because there space is more valuable the higher it is off the ground...
...sellers were panicky, coffee buyers bearishly swell-chested. Plummetlike the price of coffee plunged-down 200 points for two days. Each point is 1/100?. What the howlers called "Dec-Santos!" (coffee from Santos, Brazil, for December delivery) fell, for example, one day from 19.25? to 17.25?, recovered somewhat, hit bottom the next day at 16.65?. Such a plunge, such an unsettling of coffee futures may spell eventually the loss of millions to coffee hoarding speculators, overloaded and waiting for a rise. Brazil, world's greatest coffee producer, is also the nation of most colossal coffee hoarding. Last week Vice...
...Grijalva River, Mexico, a motor launch sank, seven passengers went to the bottom. Searchers found no trace of the bodies but saw several fat alligators...