Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fundamental difference in point of view has hitherto distinguished them. Republicanism has been identified with capital: Democracy with the working classes. Even this distinction has begun to crumble, however. "The most significant feature of the present Congress," writes the Washington correspondent of the New Republic, "has been the complete breakdown of party lines." The surrender of the Democratic congressmen to Mellon tax-reduction principles indicates that their party has not yet recovered from the disintegrating effect of the Madison Square Garden convention...
Explorers MacMillan and Amundsen having failed to settle the question by their flights last year, the 1926 explorers are already afield. Despatches from the snow motors division of the expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce (TIME, Jan. 4) reported within the fortnight the breakdown of two "iron malamutes" (tractors). Husky-dogs have been substituted to freight supplies to Point Barrow, where Captain George Wilkins will arrive in April with his pilots and two Fokker planes. One pilot, Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson has flown over 60,000 miles all alone in the Alaskan airmail service between Fairbanks and McGrath...
...everyone knows, the Anglo-French agreement was contingent in any case upon the still unconcluded Franco-U. S. debt settlement. If France should agree to pay the U. S. proportionably more, Britain was to have pari pasau treatment. However the French fiscal breakdown has damped British hopes of ever receiving even the minimum agreed upon by Caillaux...
...valleys of the Marne, Meuse and Oise were reported "dotted with the decaying bodies of domestic animals, which swirl about in a greasy slime." The industrial breakdown in the North approached complete paralysis. Nearly all the French rivers fell late in the week...
...Have you learned that the human engine whose poisonous waste is not removed each day is on the road to an early breakdown...