Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will get out of this depression, as I see it, only if business is sufficiently enterprising in the next year, even in spite of the faulty policies of the NRA and the CWA, to absorb an increasing number of unemployed wage earners. After all, unemployment is the result of errors in judgment made by ourselves, the directing classes...
...business and industrial leaders have been saying for months that they would be glad to increase wages and the employment to more labor if they could get an increasing volume of transactions. The recent enlargement of domestic purchasing power has been encouraging, but it is not enough to absorb even a small fraction of the surpluses. Curtailed production is not efficient either in agriculture or in industry to take care of the employment situation or the price level...
...further spread of the Fascist doctrine; it will mean that the powers of Europe have lost the first real test of strength, with Hitler's Germany, and it will mean the beginning of the end for the status quo set up at Versailles. If Germany is allowed to absorb or control Austria the post-war system of Europe which was based on the treaties of 1919 will collapse and there will be a general realignment in international politics...
...reason why Pennsylvanians had to pay higher prices: They were obliged to absorb a $2 a gal. tax which the Legislature last month put upon all liquor stored in the state. This tax was bitterly contested by Schenley Distillers Corp. who had most of the liquor stocks in the state -6,500,000 gal. Last week the quarrel was settled at the expense of the consumer when the Liquor Board got the company to drop its lawsuit by agreeing to buy all its supply for 80? more a gal. than the prevailing wholesale price...
...Alsace and Lorraine?" continued Chancellor Hitler. "I have said often enough that we have definitely renounced them. . . . How many times must I repeat that we do not seek to absorb what is not ours or to make ourselves loved by those who do not love us? ... I am convinced that once the question of the Saar, which is German,* is settled there will be absolutely nothing which can estrange France and Germany. Those who say I want war insult me. I am not that sort...