Word: depending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they were reading it in their home-town newspapers for the first time in 90 days. Ever since the printers of the arch-Republican Record-Herald (evening) and the arch-Democratic Independent (morning) went on strike over wages in mid-May, the capital of Montana had to depend on bulletins, radio, out-of-town newspapers and grapevine gossip for its news. Last fortnight the printers' strike was settled (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week the Record-Herald and the Independent made their reappearance on the streets and in the homes of Helena...
Grand Mobilization. Not on the Tugwell Line alone however did AAA depend. It organized every available man for counterattack on "Tory" critics. Over the radio, Assistant AAAdministrator Victor A. Christgau declared that without AAA "farmers would be driven from the land." George E. Farrell, chief of AAA's wheat section, claimed that the coincidence of the drought and AAA's crop reduction program had saved farmers $22,500,000: "When drought comes it doesn't make any difference how many acres you plant. It gets 'em all. It costs about $3 an acre to plant wheat. Farmers left...
...obvious; the business, obscure and confused. The haute couture? must risk its millions of francs of profit upon the artistic fecundity of 40 or 50 designers. The wages of 300,000 cutters and sewers, 150,000 embroiderers, glove makers, bag makers, hundreds of thousands of copyists the world over depend upon their creations. If they fail, the price is instant oblivion. If they succeed the rewards may be as great as those of Charles Frederick Worth, draper's assistant who revolutionized the haute couture in the 1850's and whose sons and grandsons have prospered mightily. No aspiring Paris dressmaker...
Augustabernard, noted for her temper. is popular in the U. S. She is noted for her superb technique which makes her dresses the favorites of connoisseurs. Commercial buyers are less enthusiastic. Her gowns depend on expensive materials, are difficult to copy. But she has a large following among well-bred socialites, dresses some of the smartest women in Paris...
...good. . . . Katharine Angell, hard, suave, ambitious, had both kinds and Ross was bright enough to see it. Definitely an antifeminist, he resented her at first, used to tear his hair and bellow that his magazine was 'run by women and children.' But he has long since grown to depend on her, often considers her his most important executive. ... It was she who raised the standard of prose and verse." Her salary as managing editor...