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Inspired by the discovery of paintings showing the fur trade, "Across the Wide Missouri" follows the climax and downward spiral of a gigantic enterprise. Beaver, a million coats and hats, was the lure. From 1832 to 1838 the industry reached a peak in both volume and competition. John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company pulled all the steps to squash its competitors and they all combined against Britain's Hudson's Bay Company. Willful trapping destroyed the beaver, glutted the market and prices dropped. In a short time Astor was left holding the field...
...equal 100) dropped during July, for the fourth month in a row, to 178. This was six points below June and twelve points below the postwar high last March. But the board said that, although it did not yet have final figures, "scattered information" indicated that the downward trend, due "in part to influences of a temporary nature," was reversed in August...
...primitive, pantherlike power and grace. In The Shouters of Sobo, a work based on the traditions of African stonecutters, students got a lesson in gripping, concentrated intensity. With muscled shoulders hunched over bended knees, her powerful arms pounding, her whole body dynamically dramatic, everything about her was directed downward with terrible force...
Prior to the swollen enrollments of the Law School at war, the number of students from the middle 'thirties on showed a downward trend from the peak year of 1936-37 a checkback yesterday showed. At this point the total...
...proprietors (stockholders) heard the 30th governor, Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper, report: "The fall in net profits (from ?1,717,397, to ?1,068,803) is largely due to the sharp fall in inventory prices in the fur trade. . . . The directors anticipate . . . some further downward adjustment. . . ." But Sir Patrick was confident. The company, he said, was well on the way to re-establishing London's eminence in the world's fur markets; the future looked bright...