Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...unemployment ceased to be U. S. Problem No. 1. Yet even this month there were still some 8,000,000 unemployed. At the same time, many industries complained of a skilled-labor shortage. Perhaps, like Britain, the U. S. could not absorb all its unemployed because its industrial mobilization never would be complete...
Henry Edward Miller, East St. Louis barber, borrowed $150 from the RFC for a new chair. The salesman skipped town with the $150, never delivered Miller's chair, but the loan was repaid with interest...
...aircraft industry was young, had never been weaned from the Government teat. When 1940's orders poured in, it almost choked to death. Its product had revolutionized the world's ideas of speed; it production methods had not caught up with modern standards of speed in production...
Despite the production boom, stock prices never have climbed back to the level from which the Lowlands Blitzkrieg toppled them last May. Thus many a shareholder had paper losses this month on stocks bought before the May collapse. To deduct them from his 1940 taxable income, he had to sell the shares, turn his paper losses into real ones. He then could deduct his short-term losses (on securities held less than 18 months) from short-term profits taken on other transactions this year, carry any net loss over to deduct from next year's short-term profits...
...Daniel Drew. Together they manipulated her back and forth from bonanza to bankruptcy, got her known as the "Scarlet Lady of Wall Street." Exhausted, the Erie had collapsed three times by 1895. Then she reformed. Under Van Sweringen control, she became a respectably operated road. But her capital structure never really recovered from Jay Gould's attentions, and she never again paid a dividend on the common. In 1938 Erie chugged into receivership (whither eleven Class I roads had preceded her) for the fourth time...