Word: deepening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with all the high hope that the ticker tape revealed, there were plenty of fears that the current business recession would deepen. Said Economic Statistics, Inc. last week: "We expect quite a sharp reaction in both industrial and manufacturing activity during the month...
Taking the long view of trade prospects, most businessmen were frankly sanguine. NRAftermath jitters might deepen the current downward dip in the business curve but when recovery was resumed it would be broader and brighter. The stock-market relapse in any event was overdue after a two-month climb and was accelerated by the plight of the French franc (see p. 19). The fall in commodities was aggravated by President Roosevelt's gloomy forecast that wheat might drop to 36? per bu., cotton to 5? per lb. unless the Constitution were amended (see p. 11). And general uncertainty...
...hard times in France deepen and are prolonged for another year or two, as there is plenty of unhappy evidence to indicate, then profound political changes can scarcely fail to result. The French people as a whole are psychologically unprepared to endure a long depression without vigorous reactions in one direction or another. . . . Frenchmen are harassed, perplexed and ill at ease and as yet they see no real gleam of light pointing a way out of the depression. They are divided amongst themselves but that division is too even to indicate an easy solution. . . . Even so the French system...
...remoteness, it makes no comment save that it has asked its Legation to secure an official report from Japan. This, of course, is the expected move. While awaiting the official statement, London will meditate with fasting and with prayer on its impending answer. In the meantime, it will probably deepen its concentration on possible methods of combatting the annoying increase of Japanese trade with India. Emerging from its anchoritic contemplation, London will point tactfully but firmly to treaty obligations, making game for each side, with China vulnerable...
Whittier's very name sounds to modern ears like the tremulous, piping voice of an aged Victorian. In a stout effort to deepen and dignify Poet Whittier's note Biographer Mordell writes this life of Whittier, the first in almost 30 years. Author Mordell denies that his hero was "a modest, mild and passionless saint," admits that he eventually became a "reactionary and religionist . . . harmless genial poet of the people," but reminds the reader that Whittier was also a "mil itant and radical agitator who was charged on a number of occasions with blasphemy and sedition. . . . This favorite...