Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consumers might find the prospect gloomy but the Department of Agriculture officially reassured them: "What shortages do exist can be compensated for by shifts in the diet to use more of the foods which are available in abundance. As a whole, these shifts can be accomplished without any severe burden on consumers as to cost, or any material decrease in the nutritional value of the diet...
...results . . . are disappointing but not hard to understand," President John McKinlay told his stockholders. "Our sales failed to increase to the extent necessary to cover the increased burden put upon us by NRA and other national and local governmental agencies. During the second quarter our payroll was $1,008,000 more than a year ago and our taxes were $626,000 more...
...consider ocean barriers." For the so-called Mitchell plan of unification of the Army & Navy air forces under a separate air department the committee had scant sympathy. Such a plan "would be a serious error, jeopardize the security of the Nation in an emergency, and be an unnecessary burden on the tax-payer...
...This session of the 73rd Congress . . . provided for the readjustment of the debt burden. It lent a hand to industry. . . . It strengthened. ... It provided. . . . It made further advances. ... It supplemented. ... It took definite steps. . . . It created. . . . Finally, and I believe most important, it recognized, simplified and made more fair and just our monetary system...
...storage men: After six months of frustration, confusion, contradiction and total inaction on the part of the Recovery Administration the Administration's order attempts to wipe out with one stroke of the pen all that is of possible value in the code to the trade, retaining only its burden, the labor provisions. Such action, if legal, must abrogate the entire code and will, in fact if not in theory, abolish the other half as to hours and wages. There is strong and uncontrollable opinion among the complying members of the code that . . . the Administration's announcement practically amounts...