Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relief Rolls into Payrolls? Last week Manhattan's Republican Congressman Bruce Barton, who as a good advertising man would never try to put Business on the spot, said in Rochester: ". . . The [New Deal] heresies are being swept away; the threats [to Business] are one by one being dispelled; the responsibility now comes directly to industry. Its leaders mast banish unemployment from America . . . put men and women back to work. This is their challenge and their opportunity. . . ." The one sign vouchsafed up to last week's end indicated that Business will do very little until Congress has done much...
...Poorly defended, underpopulated rich land such as Alaska is "a standing temptation" to overpopulated, resource-hungry militarized nations. Alaska is 54 miles by mainland from Siberia, eight miles away by the closest islands. The westmost end of the Aleutians is only 660 miles from Japan's eastmost naval base, Horomushiro, while Yokohama is 3,400 miles from fortified Honolulu...
...mighty man of God was the Reverend Samuel Moody.* From 1698 until his death in 1747, his warnings of hell fire kept the fireless meeting house at York Village, Maine, warm on even the coldest Sundays. Generous to a fault, he once gave away his wife's only pair of shoes. Sturdy, he declined a salary, lived on "faith in his Divine Master" supplemented by the voluntary gifts of his flock. Paternal, he was called Father Moody, an appellation rare among Congregationalists. Intolerant as his era, he took along an ax when at 70 he sailed as chaplain...
...only about 10% of Goodyear's requirements produced by Goodyear's own plantations, he must gamble more heavily than his competitors on war or peace as well as recovery or depression when he goes to market. In the spring of 1937, when commodity prices threatened to run away, Goodyear bought heavily, and when Depression II got under way, Goodyear had to take a $10,343,000 loss-in spite of which Goodyear had enough operating profit left over...
...Louisiana seceded. New Englanders, she said, were right poky, and all the beaux so immature and awkward she thought the Yankees must execute their men at 21. When one of these milksops announced the first defeat at Bull Run with tears in his eyes-"Our men are running, throwing away their guns and everything"-Miss Ravenel gave a shriek of joy, and then, being polite, ran upstairs to dance alone in her room...