Word: dearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sizes has 150% greater tensile strength. Its elasticity is such that it can be stretched up to 700% of its normal length. So far no one has attempted to produce it commercially. Hence chemists do not know what it will cost, though it is estimated it will be somewhat dearer than rayon, may cost even as much as silk. If it could be manufactured inexpensively, however, it seemed likely to threaten silk's last big U. S. market-the hosiery industry, which last year turned $73,230,000 worth of raw silk into women's stockings...
...Franklin Roosevelt, whom the cruel misfortune of a single illness deprived of the enjoyment of activities which lesser men take as a matter of course, nothing is dearer than action. Last week, unchained from his desk at the White House, he had his fill of it. He was in Wilmington, Hyde Park, New York City, Washington. Gettysburg. He motored, visited the sick, planned a house, laid a cornerstone, picnicked, orated and dedicated...
...Congress nothing is at once dearer and harder to defend than patronage. Any bill putting patronage jobs under civil service would have faced a hard fight at any time and when the Senate Reorganization Bill was brought up for debate the same confident group of anti-Rooseveltian Democrats who helped defeat the Court Plan jumped jubilantly into the fight against it. First test of their strength was an amendment proposed by Massachusetts' David Walsh to leave the civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor...
...plague o' both your houses." It was the week in which Labor's even dearer friend, Madam Secretary Perkins, at last admitted (after the preceding week's Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision) that the potent Sit-Down was an illegal weapon, deplorable and unworthy. And it was the week when John Lewis' C.I.O. was being blamed, rightly or wrongly, for terroristic acts with dynamite at Bethlehem Steel's plant near Johnstown...
Elephants. California, almost as rich in Conservatives as in Liberals, is a key state in Herbert Hoover's plans. Dear to his heart, dearer even than his desire to be the Republican nominee again, is this issue: Individualism v. the New Deal. To force that issue he must have a deciding voice in the national convention which writes the Republican platform, picks the Republican candidate. To run in California's primary, however, would have been to risk repudiation in his home State, to endanger his whole aim. Three stanch allies he had who shared his aims: Publisher George...