Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though commodity prices in the U. S. turned upward about the time President Roosevelt took the dollar off gold, rents continued to decline until the beginning of 1934. By last week U. S. citizens were well aware that rents were catching up with other basic elements in the cost of living. Once started, there was good reason to expect that rents would rapidly overtake the general price level.* The same factors that are making for revival in the building industry are responsible for stiffening rents. At the start of Depression surplus U. S. housing amounted to 700,000 dwelling units...
...Harvard-Yale Conference on Government and Economic Stability, the first of its kind in this country; and its success from an undergraduate standpoint rest entirely on the fact that the presence of well-known men actively engaged in government administration and business gave to the conference an atmosphere of basic practicality impossible to obtain in purely academic circles. The free and frank discussion, completely off the record, of present problems was not only strongly stimulating, but a vital factor in dissipating many a befogged undergraduate and academic idea. The frank disagreement and resulting argument of Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, Chairman...
...rendition of Pierre Loti's moving tragedy, but somewhat of a disappointment for those whose expectations were proportioned to the magnitude of the classic original. In part, at least, the inferiority is the result of a foolish shift of emphasis, naturally invited by the new medium, from the great, basic ideas of the drama to the incidental episodes...
...houses in Mincing Lane close. Only then was Chancellor Chamberlain ready to release the bad news: The huge cost of Britain's rearmament program (some $1,500,000,000 plus) had swallowed up not only the expected treasury surplus but made it necessary to impose additional taxes. The basic income tax rate was being raised threepence in the pound: for every $5 a Briton receives, he must pay $1.18 instead of $1.13 in income tax. His daily cup of tea will be taxed another fourpence per pound. Imported beer will have to pay an additional pound per barrel...
...sign of it to a hundred foreign journalists who motored out with him to what used to be the Pontine marshes, are now rich wheat fields and model Fascist towns. In the past six years three of such towns have been built (Littoria, Sabaudia, Pontinia), all following the same basic plan, and all equipped with a town hall, parish church, school, police station, Fascist headquarters, cinema, sports field and playgrounds before the first private home was built. Last week's ceremony was to trace the boundaries of the new town of Aprilia...