Word: cushion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depression, and "no ifs, ands and no buts," is predicted by Dr. William A. Irwin, economist for the American Bankers Association. Huge accumulated business earnings and private savings provide "the biggest cushion in history against depression." Farm incomes "are in no real danger of collapse; the law requires the Government to see to that, and so does the farmer's vote...
...prosperous Times suffered little from the strike, since it was covered by strike insurance and had an excess-profits-tax cushion. (But another dispute with three mechanical unions prevented the paper from coming back on the streets immediately after settling its Guild strike.) Its rival, Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 184,301) picked up close to 50,000 readers and more ads than it could print, but the Times confidently expects to hold its circulation lead. Striking editorial staffers found temporary jobs, from unloading bananas and canned salmon on the city's docks to doing cleanup jobs...
Poet Alfred de Musset was next on the list. She sat on a cushion at his feet, puffing a long pipe of Bosnian cherrywood, while he murmured that "his genius was a poor, frail thing." It was. George left Alfred half dead in a Venetian hotel and took up with his Italian doctor. "Is it in you, my Pietro," Sand wrote to her medico, "in you at long last that I shall see my dream fulfilled?" It was not in Pietro...
...existence of these public-works plans also provides a useful cushion to ease the impact of any future economic blow. A new concept of planning has grown up since the Depression created the need. It has been made an integral and accepted part of federal, state and local governments. Nowadays, in preparing for the future, planners separate public-works projects into two major categories: 1) those that must be built as quickly as the money can be raised; 2) those that can be deferred and taken off the shelf when they may be needed to combat a slump...
...cream cone to a shot of shaving cream. In addition to machines that serve hot or cold sandwiches and chocolate sundaes, make change and give massages, there was an automatic vendor, suitable for race tracks and ballparks, that is installed under a seat and delivers a seat cushion in return...