Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could have harked back across the dismal years since Steelmaster Henry Clay Frick bloodily crushed the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers at Homestead, Pa. in 1892. Not until 1919 did A. F. of L. recover courage to attempt a campaign in the nation's No. 1 basic industry. Its program was to split Steel's craftsmen among no less than 24 of its craft unions-unions in which there was no place for the mass of unskilled steel workers. Sympathetic labor historians believe that the campaign was lost less because of the savage resistance of steel...
...this is wrapped in much verbosity dear to Teuton hearts. A basic ambiguity has always been that to Germans the very name of Germany is so closely related to that of Austria that the words and ideas are fluid and merge if one "thinks in German." Thus the late great Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria gave his life in maintaining its "independence" from Germany (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), and yet he gave Austria a new Constitution with these words: "We Austrians are German and have a German country...
...June 29, under heading of Science, you devoted more than a full page and five cuts to Levitation photographed. Permit me to say it is just another example of the basic cause of many men and women being converted to so-called psychic cults...
From these basic principles the Lino type has never varied, though the original machine now has 75,000 descendants setting type in more than 70 languages in 86 countries. Linotypes sold slowly at first. Original users were the Tribune, Louisville Courier-Journal, Chicago News and Inter-Ocean, Washington Post, Providence Journal. In 1891 Mergenthaler Linotype Co. was formed with Philip Tell Dodge, Washington patent attorney, as its first president. Heading the present 18-acre Brooklyn plant of Mergenthaler and its affiliates - London's Linotype and Machinery, Ltd. and Berlin's Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik - are able President Joseph...
...months to a year, production must be increased considerably, which will automatically increase employment, total payrolls, demand for farm products and other raw materials-all of which will cause higher wholesale commodity prices. . . . It is [also] our opinion that the above trends will be continued irrespective of political conditions. Basic economic forces are now so definitely working toward this upward trend that acts of either political party will have little influence on the total volume of business during the next six to nine months." A summer slump resulting from a slackening in steel and motors would merely make subsequent expansion...