Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Problem of the rubber industry is the elasticity of crude rubber prices (from $3 a Ib. in 1910 to 2? lb. in 1933), controlled by conditions abroad. General Johnson & aides will have to allow for a wide basic price range in manufactured rubber products...
...scarcely escape the conclusion that the speeches were unfortunate. To the man with half an eye to fundamentals they were confusing; to the "floater" they will appear thorough. At a time when the greatest need in the world is for clear thinking and courageous definition of basic values and problems, these two men had nothing to offer but fog. It was apparently not without purpose that President Lowell urged last Sunday, "one must endeavor to distinguish between the enduring and the temporary, between the things essential to the framework of every good human society, and the expedients useful...
...accept the label of "Marxist," but it is doubtful if anyone, with the permissible exception of John Strachey, has yet written a more brilliant defense of the general Communist position. Though on matters of dialectic and detail, he differs noticeably from the orthodoxies of the Third International, his basic convictions are unmistakably Red. For this reason it is not too likely that "Democracy in Crisis" will replace the King James Version on the sitting-room table of the great American Boor. But those who agree with the conclusions the author has reached will feel an impulse to burst into song...
...Fair's keynote- Action. Here the sciences will be demonstrated not by dull charts and lectures, but by experiments actually performed. The layman will see how chemistry transmutes coal, wood, oil, rubber, minerals into paints, dyes, soaps, explosives, paper, food. He will see laid bare the basic mysteries not only of his radio, telephone, refrigerator, automobile but even his own body, in models with beating heart, breathing lungs, circulating blood. A huge steel robot, ten feet high, will point to foods on a table and lecture metallically on food chemistry and nutrition, tracing the foods through its own illuminated...
...George Nelson Peek of Illinois and Charles John Brand of Minnesota who were appointed co-administrators last week, was ready to proceed cautiously with the other price-upping provisions of the law. His first step called for a series of Washington conferences with the producers and processors of each basic commodity to shape up an operating program on marketing agreements. If most millers consent to buy wheat from growers at $1 per bu., Secretary Wallace can suspend the anti-trust law to sanction such a bargain. If a minority group of millers refuse to join the agreement...