Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reconstruction Finance Corp. had only $3,318,778 left in the bottom of its $300,000,000 jobless relief fund last week when President Roosevelt signed a bill amply replenishing Federal resources to help the nation's destitute millions. Authorized was the expenditure of another $500,000,000, to be raised by R. F. C. through sale of its obligations to the Treasury and turned over to an Administrator of Relief...
...Ridley's clerk, had tried to get him on a telephone in the upstairs garage, where the stables used to be. Not until after one o'clock did the garage proprietor bother to go down to where the strange pair worked at their accounts. At the bottom of the subcellar stairs, visible by the light of one yellow bulb glowing dismally in the office, the garageman found Old Man Ridley. His curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone, his head had been bashed many times with the swivel stool. In the ghostly...
When President Roosevelt last fortnight declared by radio that 90% of the cotton textile industry was good-hearted at bottom, he was only indulging in squirely politeness. Last week the directors of Cotton-Textile Institute, Inc. plumped for a 40-hr, work week and an 80-hr. weekly limitation on mill operations. But George A. Sloan, the Institute's able young head, was able to muster only ten of the industry's 30 million spindles for the Institute's plan.* He announced that when he had mustered 20 million spindles he would ask Mr. Roosevelt...
...Most indexes are adjusted to season variations. Typical is power production which must be adjusted to iron out the rise in winter (when days are short), the decline in summer. Annual peak is usually a cloudy day in the week of Dec. 22. shortest day of the year. Bottom is not around June 21, longest day. but always July 4. most observed U. S. holiday...
...support of 90% of the American people in his vigorous actions for the relief of the nation. That sight should give us hope, as our crisis is less severe than America's. ... I have become convinced that we can tell the American people what we have at the bottom of our hearts...