Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seconds later acrobatic Flight Lieutenant Abadia, who once was suspended from the air service for "imprudent flying," decided to finish off with a super-spectacular dive ending in a "half roll" swoop between the two grandstands, barely far enough apart for his plane to have room to pass between. Crash-one wingtip hit the Diplomatic Stand. CRASH -the plane rebounded against the Presidential Stand, burst into flame and sprayed burning gasoline as its propeller slashed human flesh. The whole flaming mass crunched down upon spectators between the stands, slithered 65 feet...
...accumulated deficit of $94,428,496.67 left behind for fiscal 1933 by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Fiscal 1938, said Governor Lehman, had ended with New York State some $16,600,000 in the black for the year, some $6,500,000 in the black for all years (apart from funded debt...
...collapsed. John Sutak, onetime Colorado College footballer, sandwiched between signs advertising "Sutak's Peanuts," sprinted ahead of the field, dropped out from exhaustion after two miles. An ambulance followed the procession, picked up those who fell. For those who survived, barrels of water-placed a mile apart-served as combination drinking troughs and bathing pools...
...depression." But Depression II was not like Depression I. The national income, having risen from 1932's low of 38 billion dollars to 70 billions in 1937, was now, he hoped, going down only to around 60 billions. ". . . Banking and business and farming are not falling apart like the one-hoss shay as they did in the terrible winter of 1932-33." Then Franklin Roosevelt made an ingratiating admission: "Last year mistakes were made by the leaders of Private Enterprise, by the leaders of Labor and by the leaders of Government-all three." The Government's mistake...
...issues at hand, rather than the mere following of precedent. It should be realized that comparative judgment of men in different stages of development is impossible. Further, the extent to which a man would diversify the interests of a department must be considered. Lastly, since no university can live apart from society, it fits a department of economics to deal with what Taussig called "social applications or implications...