Word: plummet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices--not in smooth little aprons but in balls of white water which shoot far out into the air and then plummet downwards like rockets, leaving behind them long confetti-streamers which are lost below in dense clouds of mist. Down their in the flat valley, the river could forget this roaring nightmare and become a lazy serpent of varied greens; light greens where the bright sands lay near the surface, shading...
...several particulars the Recession is more remarkable than the Depression. It is remarkable because the 35% plummet from last summer's high is the swiftest decline in the history of U. S. business and finance. It is remarkable because the big, obvious factors which are usually held responsible for economic retrograde- swollen credit, top-heavy inventories, unmanageable surpluses-are not in existence. Business did overextend itself last spring, just before the President dampered the roaring commodity boom. But in large measure the principal cause of the Recession appears to be purely psychological, the result of Capital's mass...
Since the Chilean peso was falling like a plummet, no foreign firm would take over the dam job. but Chileans decided to go ahead under an engineer from, Brento, Italy, swart, indomitable Ernesto Boso. Ulen & Co. had done the first quarter of the work. On the Limari River 200 mi. north of Valparaiso. Signer Boso raised a wall of rock and concrete which slowly backed up enough water to submerge the historic colonial settlement of Recoleta, a town more than 250 years old. Last to disappear was the battered cross atop Recoleta's parish church...
Such changes of management did not brake the Garden's steady downward plummet in prestige and profits. Boxing, once the corporation's most flourishing sport, attracted 206,000 spectators in 1932-33. 83,000 in 1933-34. The unpopularity of gaudy Matchmaker James Joy Johnston, who developed the practice of putting his brother's fighters on his increasingly unsuccessful cards, finally alienated the best of the country's fight managers and boxers who once considered a Garden engagement a crowning achievement. The final blow fell when the Ross-Petrolle lightweight championship tight was held last winter...
Anyone who ever saw Herbert Emerson ("Spud") Manning, 25, make a parachute jump would have predicted violent death for him. His specialty at fairs and air meets was the delayed opening. From a plane three miles high he would plummet down, trailing flour like a comet's tail, until within 1,000 ft. of the ground, then jerk his 'chute open. His most famed jump occurred a year ago in California when he fell 16,000 ft., jerked his ripcord at 500 ft., landed in an orange tree. An English jumper beat that record for altitude (he dropped...