Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present the picture of business conditions is somewhat obscured by the seasonal Christmas retail season, which is going very well. When the excessive retail movement of merchandise is out of the way, a clearer notion of basic conditions will doubtless emerge...
...would be interesting to speculate on the basic reason for this "Harvard indifference' to minor sports. Apparently it is not superficial, for no amount of propaganda and cajolery-- newspaper articles and Crimson editorials has been able to overcome it. And so, whatever the reason for the indifference may be and whether or not it can be rectified in the long run, it is time to face the immediate fact and make the best...
...becoming more and more like the manufacture of Ford cars, standardized, uniform. " The day of ' beats ' has about disappeared, and today virtually every newspaper prints simultaneously accounts of happenings of national interest. Although Washington despatches may vary according to the way the correspondents see them, the basic facts remain the same. . . . When Secretary Mellon gave out his policy on tax reduction, it went to all the newspapers at the same time. And in a fortnight the newspapers had spoken for the country and Congress, by a non-partisan vote...
...tical value except to the moralist and the historian. On the other hand, there are those who feel we may be able to answer the question much sooner than that. Not all of this school of critics believe that the present optimism is entirely substantiated by conditions in the basic industries...
...turn in general business affairs occurred during the week. Railway traffic continued to be unusually heavy, merchants reported large sales while their customers talked of " how high everything is"; the basic industries showed depression for the most part...