Word: doling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throne have sounded a descending scale of pessimism ever since 1930. While other countries have cut their debts by the simple device of inflating currency. Holland sticks tenaciously to its gold florin. Both in Amsterdam and Rotterdam rifles have cracked this summer as Dutch unemployed rioted against cutting their dole to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week. Thus spoke the Queen...
Much as America hates to admit it, the Dole undoubtedly saved England. Despite the "ignominy," despite the high-flown phrases about "selling one's birthright," the Dole, in fact, if not in name, exists and must exist in our own country today. But Britain faced the situation squarely as soon as it arose. The British grumbled, dug down deep in their pockets, paid till it hurt, and muddled through...
...Hawaii, the name of Dillingham is to Dole as the name of Whitney is to Rockefeller in the U. S. Harold Dillingham, whose big house stands on Diamond Head Drive above the finish line of last week's race, has island interests in sugar. fruit, shipping and railroads as well as yachting. His brother Walter is a sugar and utilities tycoon as well as a crack polo player...
...Brewer & Co. ("oldest American corporation west of the Rockies"), Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, Theodore Davies & Co. These firms, controlled by old missionary-merchant families and interlocked by marriage, own or act as agents for most of Hawaii's sugar plantations. At the turn of the century James D. Dole, no islander but a second cousin of Patriarch Sanford, came out from Boston, and started the pineapple business which made him many a million. After suffering huge losses in 1931 and 1932, his Hawaiian Pineapple Co. was reorganized, and Castle & Cooke took a hand in its management...
...days later Communist Deputies in the Dutch Parliament demanded a debate on the Amsterdam riots and the issue that is breeding trouble: reduction by Her Majesty's Government of dole payments to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week. Boomed Premier Dr. Hendrik Colijn, "We do not consent to debate this issue." By a vote of 58 to 24 he was upheld and scowling Dutch proletarians cursed their Queen...