Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PIDGEON'S ISLAND&151;Anthony Berkeley&151;Crime Club ($2). Risking expulsion from the Detection Club for a "guessing finale," the author exposes 14 people to a suspicion of murder. Cast away in an environment of suspicion, each of the group exhibits his basic personality, enabling Roger Sheringham to satisfy the reader's conclusion...
These industries were hardly caviar to the general. He ordered them to : 1) complete their proposed codes in 15 days; or 2) join up with allied industries already under codes; or 3 ) accept a new basic code containing general labor and hour provisions to which they might later add trade-practice requirements...
...Because the commodity gold exchanges now for 150% more of other basic commodities than in 1926 and we have increased our dollar price of gold only 69%, we have a dollar so deflationary that to stabilize it now would mean continuing disaster...
...When you've used up your energy at work or play," read the Esty advertisements, "smoke a Camel and notice how soon you feel your flow of natural energy snap back ... a healthful and delightful release of natural, vibrant energy. . . . Basic discovery from a famous research laboratory...
...thoroughgoing overhauling during the summer when Congress would no longer be in Washington to peer over the mechanics' shoulders. Reported, but denied by General Johnson as "pure fabrications" which "might as well have been written in a padded cell,"were insistent predictions that all but some 25 basic codes for big industries would be junked...