Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this surplus is no comfort to Chairman Crowley. He wrote an indictment of the present state of the U. S. banking business: for 75 years the ratio of bank capital to assets and to deposits has declined. Now the number of banker-owned dollars which protect the public's deposit dollars is at a new low-about...
...open-air lunch with the President at Hyde Park, New York's Herbert Lehman carted 17 other Democratic Governors, ten Republicans who had just finished the business of their 31st Annual Governors' Conference at Albany. The Democrats needed comfort, for at the supposedly non-partisan conference such new G. O. P. brooms as Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut, John William Bricker of Ohio, had put them on the defensive by hammering at Federal Relief policies (but not at Relief cash...
...welcomers hallooed, waved, blew whistles, made comparisons. They found the new Mauretania a sturdier but less speedy version of the old, nearly two knots slower (average speed: 20.7 knots); less roomy (1,300 passengers); 13 feet shorter (length overall: 722 feet), but 4,000 tons heavier. Built for comfort, she will never duplicate the speed record of the "Old Girl," who held the mythical Blue Riband 22 years, until Germany's Bremen took it away (Cunard White Star's Queen Mary now holds...
...Chemist LeRoy Drew Betz procured a sample from his London agents. Chemist Betz then duplicated its color, hardness, chemical content, using as a base distilled water from the Schuylkill, sent 25 gallons to the White House ("purely as a gesture of patriotism and a possible means of increasing the comfort of the visiting monarchs...
...much comfort for H. H. was the failure of both industries to get back to where they were in March...