Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afraid that many civil servants would have to quit their jobs or die of malnutrition because the 50% depreciation of Nicaragua's currency has raised living costs beyond their reach, drastic Finance Minister Benito Ramirez last week doubled the pay of all Government employes, including himself...
...none of his friends needed to be told who had written for this London paper "HOW TO CREATE A DEPRESSION-President Roosevelt's Recipe-By a Correspondent." Ex- cerpts: "Mr. Roosevelt, like most vocal humanitarians, is a great hater. . . . Roosevelt's punitive mind is mirrored in the drastic extension of the Capital Gains Tax. . . . Working men may be forgiven for thinking that Mr. Roosevelt's passion for half-baked reforms has reformed them out of their jobs. . . . As a result of [the Roosevelt Administration's] crazy experiments in taxation and their policy of harassing industry...
...analyst named James O. Mc-Kinsey to study the matter. Hulking, robust J. O. McKinsey was born a poor boy, became a professor, had never held a corporate job. But when he made his report after four months work, the directors were so impressed that they took a step drastic in any business and completely unprecedented in Field's 70-year-history of rooted conservatism-they made J. O. McKinsey chairman of the board and absolute dictator of company policy (TIME...
These were high water marks in the most drastic reorganization the British Army has seen for generations, a reorganization that proposed almost complete substitution by advancement by merit instead of by seniority, a new Army Council on which Territorial (National Guard) officers would sit for the first time, increased pay and better living conditions for both officers and men. The equivalent of reviving David Lloyd George's War-time Ministry of Munitions, Secretary Hore-Belisha achieved by appointing Vice Admiral Sir Harold Arthur Brown, Director General of Munitions Production, to the additional post of Master General of the Ordnance...
...Social Security, not because of any inherent dislike for social legislation but because the Act is badly drawn and in need of drastic revision...