Word: levels
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...open water. The 25 concrete pontoons are honeycombed with watertight compartments. From both sides of each floating section a 65-ton reinforced concrete anchor juts into the clay bottom of the lake. Hydraulic adjustments on the anchor cables accommodate the bridge to the rise & fall of the lake level (it varies about three feet in a year...
...Hardy series progresses, moppet Rooney seems to be developing into a menace of national proportions, and one of the cleverest actors on the screens today. His seene with Judy Garland driving through Central Park at dawn in a carriage is the highest point in a considerably above-sea-level picture...
Advance indications also are that the University, including the eleven graduate schools as well as the College, will remain at approximately its 1939 level of 7,990. No large changes are anticipated in any department. Most of the graduate schools will hold registration on Monday...
Consumption. Other evidence indicated that defense was carrying U. S. consumers from a potato level of subsistence toward a butter level. In defense-rich Chicago, wholesale trade was 12-15% ahead of 1939, women's dress sales were 15-30% ahead. Nationwide department-store sales in August were 10% ahead of a year ago, only 11% under August 1929. Sears, Roebuck continued to lead the procession with a 22% gain over August 1939. Most bullish note: retail managements have been as gloomy as Wall Streeters about prospects, have kept inventories low. Since August buying by stores was 30% below...
From this lush new export market (where prices are $10 to $21.40 a ton over the domestic level) U. S. pulp makers are skimming the cream. But they do not consider it permanent. A break in the British blockade would release a tidal wave of low-cost Scandinavian pulp, force prices far below anything U. S. mills could meet. Already pulpmen have had reason to be leery of the Latin-American market. Last spring, after Norway's collapse, they were hounded by Latin-American purchasing agents. Suddenly the agents vanished. Nazi salesmen had promised them low-priced pulp deliveries...