Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elsewhere the back-to-the-farm movement was bitterly damned: ¶ Government statistics showed that U. S. farm wages were lower than they had been for 34 years. Bottom average: 40? per day & board in South Carolina. ¶ "When well-trained farmers, graduates from the school of agricultural experience, with capital behind them, are running right now on the verge of bankruptcy," said Ray McKaig of the Idaho State Grange, "any proposition to take city dwellers and put them on farms is utterly asinine...
...matter how he troubles the waters, no matter how deeply lucid he may leave them, at the bottom of every book its author may be found. Herbert George Wells cannot hold his breath long enough to stay there: he comes bobbing up, threshes around, blows off steam at a great rate. So argumentative did his novels become that after a while they ceased to be novels, turned to Outlines of History, Sciences of Life, Salvagings of Civilization. Not since Meanwhile (1927) has he written a book that even he would call a novel. With The Bulpington of Blup, which...
...year ago the gloomiest predictions were that if the bottom fell from all business, the automobile industry would reach a bottom 1,820,000 cars. That bottom was escaped by a hair. Between that bottom and an average replacement demand of 2,800,000 cars lies the difference between a market in which all companies stand to lose money and one in which most of them could be run profitably...
...exciting market tips to woodpulp magazine writers last week. One was that the editors of Dell Publishing Co.'s three "pulps" need new material. The other: that Clayton Magazines are again paying on acceptance of stories (instead of on publication), which meant that their literary inventory is near bottom...
Pulp writers everywhere seized upon these tips with new hope. Perhaps other big publishers who have been printing copy "out of the safe" for the past year will soon reach the bottom of their reserves, be compelled to buy again. At least the news helped compensate for what happened two months ago when Fiction House suspended publication of its entire list of twelve magazines...