Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government's fiscal picture must be carefully scanned, and that doesn't mean next year, but now-and . . . not through a colored lens. . . . I am opposed, unless exceptional circumstances arise, to increasing by law the present limit of the national debt. The only way . . . is to begin immediately a radical and substantial cut in Government expenditures...
...heads and shoulders and will be strapped on over their chests. Attached will be small air pumps through which mothers-in gas masks-can supply their young with filtered air. To get the babies accustomed to the new "toys," British ARP (Air Raid Precaution) officials suggest that mothers begin right now to "play peekaboo" with their infants through the helmets' mica windows...
Already carrying mail at 6? the first ounce as in the U. S., 5? for each additional ounce (6? in the U. S.), Trans-Canada expects to begin passenger service in its Lockheed 145 within a few weeks. For mail and passenger business from outside Canada it offers a 20-hour schedule from New York to Vancouver, and, after the transatlantic service begins, it will help get you in 40 hours from London to the Pacific coast...
...rise from June to November when the " 15-week sidewise move" began. A corresponding rise in TIME'S index of Business Conditions (see below) took place from March to August, when the TiMEline wavered, subsequently to reach a new peak on the first of the year, and then begin another descent (which has not yet indicated a reversal of the major uptrend). This in no way contradicts the sidewise movement of other indexes, for the TIME index reports not production but the relative soundness of business conditions. Since business activity has lagged several months behind the TIMEline, business activity...
...that issue we hereby declare war," he said. But although Phi Beta Kappa men thrilled to the campaign title, "To the Defense," they found it hard to know just where to start in on the business of rescuing the world from destruction. It was agreed at length to begin by doing away with all "isms." That should be easy enough. But before that job could be attended to, something had to be done about the gold standard. Ever since the U. S. Government increased the price of gold, the Phi Beta Kappa Society had been losing money hand over fist...