Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Tom lost his place, Ralph his, and the Young boys, with their wives and children, moved in with the old folks and tried to adjust themselves to the contention that went on all the time...
...fashioned high-tariff plank of the Republicans was matched with a Democratic promise "to seek by mutual agreement the lowering of . . . tariff barriers." That meant that President Roosevelt would continue to adjust customs rates over the bargain counter of reciprocal agreements with other countries...
...sell more of their goods." Last week, ending a six-week tour of Europe, Mr. Davis told newshawks in London: "There is not the slightest hope we can regain for some important commodities the great markets here we once enjoyed. . . . The farmers at home must continue national efforts to adjust their production to these changed conditions...
...Well, I tie the noose and adjust it around his neck...
...once a group of Congressmen found themselves in agreement with a Brain Truster. President Roosevelt and Treasury experts had argued that to adjust the proposed tax so that corporations might put by some of their profits as a cushion against hard times would decrease its yield below the required $620,000,000. Last week the House Ways & Means subcommittee, assigned to write the bill, whipped out a graduated schedule of rates which it claimed would permit corporate cushions and still bring in all the money the President and Treasury wanted. Its scale: a 15% tax on the first...