Word: embarks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this symphony of common sense, a not quite harmonious note is added by stock market reports such as this United Press dispatch of October 22: "The possibility that the stock list may embark upon a new forward drive was enhanced over the weekend by Germany's decision to intensify the war. Last week stock prices climbed to within striking distance of the 1939 peaks on indications that peace moves had failed." Disillusion grows with the reading of a pamphlet of the New York investment firm of Bonner and Bonner: "We believe that sound steel stocks, purchased around current levels, will...
...YORK--The possibility that the stock list may embark upon a new forward drive was enhanced over the weekend by Germany's decision to intensify the war. Last week stock prices climbed to within striking dis- tance of the 1939 peaks on indications that peace moves had failed
...reached the northeastern frontier; in Hungary, where a Nazi invasion or a Nazi coup d'etat had been expected for so long that stories of a two-week delay seemed hopeful; in Bulgaria, where dreams of getting a slice of Rumania flourished under the belief that Russia had embarked on an aggressive policy; in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, the countries most directly threatened by German-Russian collaboration, the meaning of Germany's drive through Poland was clear. No historical precedent justified a fear that such ill-assorted partners as Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, Turkey, Spain could embark upon...
Ninety-two Harvard students in Naval Science will embark on the battleship Wyoming and the destroyer U.S.S. Herbert at Charlestown Navy Yard today for the annual summer cruise of the college Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The cruise will put in at Havana, Charleston, S. C., and New York City, and return to Boston about July...
After postulating that facial characteristics set the Jews apart, that they are "a people representing the supersophisticated product of intensive selection and long-continued evolution," Dr. Hooton proceeds to embark upon "a discussion which will arouse the ire of many an idealistic democrat with an inferiority complex and of all scientists who labor under the delusion that only negative findings are sound." Says...