Word: distress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...department of fiction, does standardization do real harm. An appreciation by the publishers that a greater profit might be derived from selling a hundred thousand copies at one dollar than from disposing of three thousand at three dollars and a half might assist materially in alleviating the present distress...
...Ambassador, "can be summed in two words-economic reconstruction. Economics are at the root of every question in this world. They are the prime cause of political strife, of civil and international wars. They are the basis of all social problems, the foundation of private or national happiness or distress, the prime movers in the development of Science and Art and the principal factor in the upbuilding of any great nation. Mussolini is fully convinced that it matters little if a government is red or white, republican or monarchic, revolutionary of hyper-constitutional, as long as it operates in full...
Blind flight still remains a source of great peril to aviators. Brooks Hyde Pearson, air mail pilot, up in a blinding snowstorm, crashed into trees high up in the Alleghany Mountains. A farmer of Curwensville, Pa., saw the plane in distress, heard the crash and at daylight found the burnt remains of plane and pilot after several hours' search. Pearson had in his plane the usual flying instruments, totally insufficient in snow, fog or violent rain. Fortunately, the Army Air Service is aware of this serious problem in air navigation. Last week Eugene H. Barksdale (lieutenant) and Bradley Jones...
...birthday of William McKinley, praised the six Presidents which Ohio has given to the country- Hayes, Garfield, McKinley, Taft, Harding. Chief Justice Taft presided. ¶ The President extended invitations to some 80 persons representing agriculture, banking, transportation, etc., to attend a conference in Washington on relieving farmers of distress by arrangements for refunding their pressing debts...
...Diagnosis. "The distress is most acute among those wholly dependent upon one crop. . . . Great numbers of individual farmers are so involved in debt both on mortgages and to merchants and banks that they are unable to preserve the equity of their properties. They are unable to undertake the diversification of farming that is fundamentally necessary for sound agricultural reconstruction of the area; they are unable to meet their obligations, and thereby has been involved the entire mercantile and banking fabric of these regions...