Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler had one of his better tantrums last week. Once more the pudgy but intuitive little Führer put the fear of Wotan into baffled British statesmen, and once more France was a prey to apprehensive fury as the Berlin-Rome Axis...
...Soviet industry is still functioning, though in a manner that would be totally intolerable in any advanced capitalist country. Soviet industry and supply have not actually broken down, but are sadly disrupted, and they are becoming worse instead of better...
...great 1937 hunt for rich tax dodgers launched so suddenly by him and Franklin Roosevelt early this month (TIME, June 14). The hunt meet was not in the customary inquisition chamber, the Senate's barnlike caucus room, but in the House Ways & Means Committeeroom, which has much better acoustics, handsome indirect lighting, and comfortable chairs of green-blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel Springs, N. C., chairman of the joint committee, his bald dome almost as bright as his Palm...
...Suddenly the whole camp burst into shrieks and sobs. The children grabbed stones, sticks, tent-pegs, rushed to smash the van. Frenzied and heartbroken 300 fled from the camp, were not rounded up until next day. Bleated John R. MacNamara, M. P. and a camp leader, "It was considered better to tell the children the news after they were fed and before they went to bed so they could sleep on it." When the first shock had passed 50 of the children sent apologies to Camp Commandant Henry Brinton, declared: "Some of us decided the news was being broadcast...
...after an all-time peak of $800,000,000 the preceding year. Other main cause was the downward curve of the building cycle, to which the furniture business is intimately geared. Thus the biggest problem of Depression-etherized furniture makers was how to cut costs through standardization and better planning, while their biggest hope was a revival of home furnishing along with home building...