Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concluded, "I need no help." In an effort to explain why U. S. Citizen Rubens refused help against the Secret Police who have got her in jail, Walter Duranty cabled: "I know the system. It is not hypnotism but the establishment of a moral ascendancy. If that is not clear ask a psychoanalyst...
Cinema theatres that show double features make more money than single-feature theatres. To the motion picture industry that fact is clear indication that double features are what the public wants. But anybody who has ever eaten too much candy knows that what the public wants and what it ought to get may be two different things. Last week in two important cinema centres the double feature was getting a thorough going over, to determine 1) whether the public really prefers the double bill, and 2) whether its eyes are not bigger than its stomach...
...cold rolled steel sheets, on the same day that U. S. Steel Corp. signed a new contract with Labor maintaining wages at the same level as before Only last month President Benjamin Franklin Fairless of U. S. Steel wrote the Senate Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief that "it is clear that prices cannot be reduced without corresponding reduction in costs, of which wages are the most important part." This produced the following retort from President Roosevelt: "The only way to get volume is to produce goods for a price the public will pay. . . . But that does not mean that such...
Between its lines readers get a clear picture of the moral and cultural changes in the South in the ten years that the book covers, the questioning of old customs by little Confederates like Bayard, the persistence of old Southern conventions in situations that make them absurd. Thus, although Cousin Drusilla and John Sartoris have gone to war together, lived in military encampments, rebuilt the plantation, fought carpetbaggers, they cannot hold out against the good ladies of Jefferson. In the midst of domestic disorder, while Sartoris is killing two Republicans and holding an election at gun's point...
...They reveal that the President believes the federal government should have ultimate authority over all prices, so that eventually Washington will be able to set prices at the levels it thinks proper. And when all the factors that go into the making of prices are considered, it rapidly becomes clear that if a government is to have power to set and maintain prices, there will be very little that is not regulated by that government...