Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lend the Party considerable support). The gist of the program is condensed in the Party's No. 1 Slogan: "For Jobs, Security, Democracy, and Peace." As a minimum basis for democratic coalition, Communists propose: 1) support the bulk of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic policy; 2) bring to bear all possible pressure for abandonment of his hands-off neutrality policy; 3) collaborate with France and Soviet Russia; 4) promise collaboration with Great Britain if it reverses its present, conciliatory approach to the Fascist powers...
...United States should be interpreted in the light of changing times. Answering critics of the proposed New Deal bill for the registration of firearms the Tribune says: "Another how! has arisen from those who point to Article II of the Bill of Rights forbidding infringement of the right... to bear arms. May we remind such objectors that this constitutional provision was adopted ... When pioneer conditions required that the householder become his own policeman? An insistence on its literal interpretation is shown to be absurd when we reflect...
...shook, stretched, heated, froze, destroyed every part, every material. They built huge testing machines many times as valuable as the part they were testing. In the end the experts were satisfied that every inch of the plane could stand twice as much stress as would ever be brought to bear. Fourth DC-4, fruit of this triple experimenting, represents $992,808 for labor and engineering, $641,804 for materials and overhead...
...jargon-confirming the action of the railroad average (which passed its April high) and indicating an intermediate upswing. Brokerage boardrooms fluttered with rumors that Robert Rhea of Colorado Springs, best-known interpreter of The Theory, had said upward breaking of 121 would definitely mark the end of the bear market. This was denied by High Priest Rhea. At any rate, industrials closed the week still below 121. And there was no theory or index that said business had definitely landed on a shelf, or reached bottom...
Meanwhile the Russian Bear has awakened to the Yellow Peril and massed defences along the Manchurian border. In addition to "Siberia's life-line," double tracked railway across the barrens, a second road has been constructed 200 miles further from the border. The Russian army has 400,000 men in the East, as well as 1500 planes within flying distance of Japan's industrial cities. Caches of Munitions and food are also ready for the Soviets...