Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further attempt to break the depression. 2) This Federal policy produced a series of Treasury deficits which the country voted to end in the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 3) The Government is now reorganizing itself on a permanent long-range basis whereas business is being asked to adopt a policy of expansion as a temporary emergency measure. 4) The Government's $3,300,000,000 public works program more than offsets its operating economies as an NRA stimulant. Another point unmentioned by Secretary Roper: The Government is spending public money on which the taxpayer gets no tangible returns...
From Detroit emanated a hint that foxy Mr. Ford was only waiting to see what kind of code his competitors would adopt, then go them all one better with a more generous code...
...sanctuary in which every form of wild life native to the park receives total protection. Occasionally some species benefits from the changes wrought by human developments and becomes so numerous as to threaten the existence of some rarer, less adaptable, species. At such times it may become necessary to adopt control measures to reduce the predatory species, but such control measures are only temporary and local in their nature...
...mills. In Philadelphia 2,000 strikers stormed the Walburton Hosiery plant. Near Bristol the Blue Moon Silk Hosiery Co. was having similar labor troubles. In the face of these demonstrations a majority of the mill operators offered their employes a 25% wage increase but flatly refused to adopt a "closed shop" policy...
...went to the Conference to urge stabilization of the world's currencies on a bimetallic basis of 20% silver and 80% gold. Evidently nettled by President Roosevelt's refusal to stabilize the dollar now on any basis, Senator Pittman said last week: "The world should either adopt a system of managed currencies or return to a metallic basis. Personally I do not believe we have reached the stage where we can have managed currencies. It comes down to a question of whether we have reached the point where we are willing to trust each other to manage currencies...