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Word: dawesian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem to be showing improvement," he said. "But in time the larger ones must necessarily follow. ... I would attribute much more importance to the increase in electric power consumption in the country during the last two weeks than to stock or bond quotations." Only factors tending to discredit this Dawesian cheer last week were his past record and the still-sagging index of business conditions. In General Dawes's record are the following utterances: "People do not realize that conditions are gradually improving." June 5, 1930. "It [the moratorium] is an augury of improved financial conditions." June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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