Word: developer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambitions." They were, he said: 1) the re-election of Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, 2) to see Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, promoted next year from Lieutenant Governor to Governor of Pennsylvania. 3) to see New York State's American Labor party develop into "a major political party" and 4) to see the "C. I. 0. ticket win in Detroit tomorrow...
...resulted in petroleum products being sold below cost in some areas in order to meet unrestrained competition. . . . Price wars necessarily injure small independent marketers. . . . Therefore, I am requesting and authorizing you, as Chairman of the Marketing Committee, to designate committees for each locality when and as price wars develop, with authority to confer . . . and in a co-operative manner to stabilize the price level to conform to that normally prevailing in contiguous areas where marketing conditions are similar...
...President's foreign policy can be most intelligently discussed by those familar with the rise of Populism, the history of craft unionism, and the conditions prevalent when Washington counseled his country against entangling alliances. More tolerance to new policies that seem to clash with old American customs may develop when we realize that many accepted reforms like free education, the limitation of hours of labor, and the extension of credit to farmers, were once branded by sober citizens as radical and subversive...
...compartments, in all the places where U. S. businessmen habitually swap horseback opinions on the State of the Union, prime topic last week was the timeless question-How is Business? But it was not put in the usual form of a casual greeting. Not only had business failed to develop a normal autumn spurt: it was definitely on the down grade. The New York Times weekly business index has dropped steadily from above in. its Recovery high registered in the middle of August, to less than 105, lowest since last February. Everyone had heard disturbing tales of layoffs, close downs...
...return for Jody's putting in a summer's hard work, Farmer Tiflin lays out $5 to breed their own mare Nellie. Jody dedicates himself completely to Nellie's prenatal care, to giving his father more than his five-dollar's worth. When complications develop at the delivery, the hired hand kills Nellie with a hammer, and in a gory Cesarean delivers Jody his promised colt...