Word: dull
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...pound, now quoted at 1.65? against 1.90? a year ago. No impetus of buying caused this move, in which practically all the steel companies promptly followed-their-leader. Indeed, steel ingot production last week was slowed down to 39% of capacity. With prices so low, business so dull, few steel companies are covering their dividends, many more are not even earning profits. At last week's new price-scale, profits will run $2 to $4 a ton higher. Thus unless the volume of steel business drops even lower, last week's price maneuver was decidedly bullish for steel...
...warrant their prolonged duration. It takes June Walker about twenty-five minutes of audible self examination to discover that she really is in love with her cowboy, when the audience knew about it all along. As a rule there is nothing offensive about the play, it's just dull; but there is one scene which is inexcusable. Riggs, in his search for realism, paints with a broad brush. It's an old western custom to give a chivivari to an engaged couple. In accordance with tradition Miss Walker, in a night gown, together with her betrothed, is placed upon...
...labor. The immense subsidies which foreign ships squeeze out of the wages of those who build them and operate them are no less subsidies because they are taken from labor alone than are government payments to ships, to which payments the people as a whole contribute. Is anyone so dull that he cannot comprehend this obvious fact? Why then do critics of our policy ignore...
...after ponderous box of dull gold ingots was hauled up from the vaults of the Bank of England last week, rushed across the Channel to Paris, then lowered down, down into the vaults of the Bank of France, buried so deep that above them lies a subterranean lake...
...beginning Jan. 4) for McNaught Syndicate between 1,000 and 1,500 words for each Sunday-the one day of the week when Colyumist Coolidge does not appear. He may discuss "politics or any other subject," and, according to McNaught editors, "will not be so serious as to be dull...