Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...figures failed to reflect large income tax losses due to last year's stock-market crash. In fact income tax receipts were up $80,000,000 above the 1929 level. Business depression since Jan. 1 likewise made no appearances in these fiscal statistics; its effect will not emerge until next year's tax payments...
...track is not absolutely standard, but students of physics found fine food for debate in this proposition: the gravity factor being negligible, it may be that one can run faster up a slight incline since, at each stride, one's feet would strike upsloping ground more quickly than level...
...Grain Stabilization Corp., the Board's market agency, did declare: "The grain trade need have no apprehension of competition from wheat held by Grain Stabilization Corp. during the coming months when farmers will be moving the 1930 crop to market, unless in the meantime prices rise to the level at which purchases were made [$1.15 to $1.18]. In no event will this 1929 stabilization wheat be thrown on the market in a way to depress prices...
Cotton. Meanwhile the cotton crop was in no better position than wheat. The spot price in southern markets last week was down to 12? per lb., 33⅛% under last year's price level. The Farm Board's new Cotton Stabilization Corp., similar to grain stabilization, prepared to take over one million bales of the 1929 surplus held by cooperatives for loans, and thereby commence its market career with an initial loss of $15,000,000 to clear the way for the 1930 crop. Last week the first bale of the new crop reached the New Orleans exchange...
...punctuation, by typographically broken lines, in the manner but not to the extent indulged in by Poet e. e. cummings. MacLeish's verse often gives the same impression as Hemingway's prose: quiet but threatening, simple but magniloquent. In most of these 14 poems he speaks "with grave and level voice...