Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first New Deal agencies was Home Owners' Loan Corp., formed to furnish urban mortgage relief by issuing its bonds in exchange for distress mortgages. Under John H. Fahey, a New England publisher, banker and shipbuilder, HOLC has lifted almost one-fifth of the U. S. home-mortgage burden, has brought relief to 862,000 small homeowners. Last November, with $2,000,000,000 of its $3,000,000,000 capitalization already dispersed and 400,000 cases pending to use up the rest, HOLC suspended all applications for loans. By March, 30% of HOLC's debtors were...
...SAINT GOES ON-Leslie Charteris -Crime Club ($2). In his best form, Simon Templar twinkles, cuts and shoots his way through three more adventures, involving a ring of jewel thieves, an admiring Peer, a damsel in distress...
...Lenin, Trotsky and the Leatherwood God-here they are-all boiled down to two with the radio and the newsreels to make them effective and if you don't believe they are dangerous . . . you don't know the temper of this country in this continued moment of distress...
...hardworking heart muscle. If the bore of the coronary arteries is narrowed by disease or if cardiac circulation is otherwise interfered with, the cells of the heart muscle suffocate. The heart will stand for such maltreatment just so long. Then suddenly the heart "utters a piercing cry of distress." That cry is angina pectoris...
...well. He promised the U. S. a new order, social and economic. Most of his Administration's acts have not, however, attempted to set up such an order but rather to repair the old order, to rebalance what was out of balance, to rescue isolated groups from distress. But NRA alone, conceived principally as a Recovery measure, was a man-sized attempt to produce a new social and economic order, affecting everyone's method of earning a living. Under AAA and FERA farmers and the unemployed discarded old cards and drew new ones from the same old political...