Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight of Governor Dickinson milking the Holstein might better be pictured to inspire our people to milk cows instead of treasuries. At the rate civilization is moving in reverse possibly it is high time we all got on our knees...
...Speaker. Last week the vaulted ceiling of the House rumbled with his rolling r's as he declared that millions of acres of land devoted to deer parks in Scotland (see map), most of it owned by titled gentry whom Member Kirkwood does not like, "might better be used for rearing human beings...
...Ryan estate. In kindly Pacifist Root's scheme of things, the sale of man-killers had no place. Quietly he put Auto-Ordnance on the shelf. The Thompsons, father and son, had done a good selling job, were on the way to making it better, but under Elihu Root's benign influence, sales were turned over to an agency. Auto-Ordnance went after no business. The Thompsons left the company...
During his four years in the White House the U. S.'s greatest ex-Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, used to announce at regular intervals that business was getting better. Not yet quite so famous are the announcements of another H. H., Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, business-appeaser emeritus. Mr. Hopkins last week issued another H. H. announcement to spread a little recovery cheer, noting an end-of-May "pickup in activity": increases in auto sales and in post-strike coal activity...
Government Securities: To check the rise in Government securities in March, April, May, the U. S. Treasury had various Government trust funds sell $90,000,000 of their Governments, but investors with nothing better to do in the last two weeks bid Government securities up to new highs (over 114), thereby reducing interest rates to metaphysical fractions. So New York's great National City Bank complained for all U. S. banks (who now have 60% of their funds invested in Governments): "Treasury bills [are] selling at the virtually non-existent yield of 0.004%, and all maturities of Treasury notes...