Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dependent on imports for meat, eggs, coffee, oats, corn and wheat. Her wheat supply has in recent years been stepped up by the successful reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, but her estimated annual wheat supply of 7,000,000 tons is still less than 90% of her rock-bottom requirements...
Sincerely, from the bottom of his compromising heart, Harrison Spangler felt that G.O.P. should not engage in fights, speak bluntly or do anything positive. He had called the Post-War Advisory Council to Mackinac to draft a program. The Council, thought Harrison Spangler, was an expertly hand-picked group. Ob streperous characters, like Wendell Willkie, had not been invited...
...week, are highly paid), Délano was busy with a motion picture and had no time for publishing. He might have skipped an issue. Instead he whipped off a cartoon for the cover, printed half the inside pages solid black, left half blank, at the bottom of each printed the caption: "Hold up to the sunlight for five minutes and you will see figures of political significance." Half of Topaze's readers that week claimed to see something. The rest held Topaze to the sun until their arms ached...
Quitting business in 1928, Lawson turned his attention to humanity. He wrote a book called Direct Credits for Everybody, founded a society. In 1931 there were enough Direct Credits devotees to fill Milwaukee's city auditorium with white-uniformed, red-sashed convention delegates. At the bottom of the depression, Commander in Chief Lawson's outfit claimed millions of followers, thousands of officers (Michigan alone had about 100 major generals, 300 brigadiers...
...rhythm in British wheat prices has been traced back 800 years. On the back of this basic cycle rides a lesser one of nine years. Foundation Director Dewey has arranged his own business affairs in the expectation that there will be a boom until 1947, then a slump hitting bottom about 1951-but he emphasizes that each business must discover the rhythm in its own affairs...