Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco, Presbyterian Dr. John Hayes Creighton, onetime chaplain, announced that he had oiled his army rifle But San Francisco Mormons, Buddhists Christian Scientists, Jews, Protestants drummed up a "Peace Day," subtitled "Keep America Out of War Day," at the Golden Gate Exposition. The Chicago...
...crisis had put into Franklin Roosevelt's hands the means of carrying it out in the name of preparedness. Gone was the Administration's peacetime notion of self-liquidating projects. Peace itself had been liquidated. Last week even Henry Morgenthau, who opposed public works spending, rehired Chicago's learned Jacob Viner, Princeton's Winfield William Riefler, No. 1 & 2 Treasury anti-spending brain trusters, and Princeton's Walter W. Stewart, to advise him how to spend for preparedness in the U. S.'s greatest crisis...
...prospect -all ample to meet U. S. needs (annual consumption: 6,600,000 tons) with plenty left over for the perennial Cuban surplus. For the fall killing there were a bumper pig crop, ample supplies of other meats except lamb, in which the 1939 crop is short, and Chicago packers were passing up orders from abroad because the British had fixed their prices below the level to which last week's speculative boom had pushed domestic prices...
...that they would be worth something or that the Government might take over and pay 30-40? on the dollar, speculators dived in. The Dow-Jones average of rail bonds climbed 32.5%, the New Haven's defaulted 4½s of 1967 from 12 to 15⅞ (32.3%), Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific's 55 of 1975 from...
...that science should be a unified endeavor with a unified language, there grew a series of unification congresses and an International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (TiME, Aug. 1, 1938). The first two volumes were to comprise 20 monographs. Seven of these have now been published by the University of Chicago Press...