Word: broadest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine-cent copper was preceded by the broadest buying in months (see p. 56). Cocoa trading (5½? per Ib.) was the heaviest of the year. Hides were strong, and sugar hit a four-year high at 1.88? per pound for May futures. Wool was inactive at 90? per Ib. Silver trading has slowed to a practical standstill since announcement of a proposed 50% tax on all profits derived from sales of bullion to the Government, and the price has hung around 45? per ounce. Side by side with climbing commodity prices this spring has been an expanding public interest...
...General Johnson, which provided for a meeting between captive operators and union representatives. "Failing in agreement on any point . . . the President will pass on the questions involved, and will in making decisions use the principle that captive mines must operate under conditions of work substantially the same in the broadest sense as those which obtain in the commercial mines. ... In the meantime, and with realization that every effort at speedy ending of these matters is being sought, the President requests that work be continued and resumed and that order be maintained...
...appreciate the many facilities the Union offers for a multitude of activities and the concomitant social contact which is so important in first-year college life if interpreted in the broadest sense, one has only to make a brief tour of the building. Last year in the Small Dining Room, as distinguished from the Large Dining Room and the Rotunda, the Class of 1936 had its French, German and Latin tables where men could converse during the meals in the particular language in which they were interested. The Large Dining Room was the scene of last year's Freshman entertainment...
...There is no limit to the number of teams of graded ability that interested students can organize; in any way to permit a victorious House to be regarded as unjustified in its victory, or to place House sports in a position of inferiority, is little in accord with the broadest policies of the University...
...week President Roosevelt laid before Congress his Tennessee River-Muscle Shoals project as his first great piece of national planning. He called for a Tennessee Valley Authority-"a corporation clothed with the power of Government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise . . . charged with the broadest duty of planning for the proper use, conservation and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin." Declared he in his special message: "The Muscle Shoals development is but a small part of the potential public usefulness of the entire Tennessee River. Such use transcends mere power...