Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expedition will study the natives who live in such attitudes. The snow time is at about 18,000 feet here. Grazing is carried on to 17,000 feet and the natives drive their flocks as high as 18,000 feet. There are a few settlements at 16,000. One monastery is at 16,000 feet, a nunnery at 17,000 and a hermit lives at 18,000 feet...
Next morning at breakfast, when Mr. Moffett read Mr. Ickes' words, his food lost its taste. Having got his home modernization campaign well under way, he was about to launch his bigger drive to encourage private capital to build new houses. Only two days before he had told the Press that private capital was beginning to come forward in a big way, that already he had applications for insurance of $102,000,000 of mortgages, most of them for low-cost housing projects...
Buenos Aires, Nov. 30--Paraguayan forces massed tonight for a smashing week-end offensive along the western sector of the Gran Chaco border war with Bolivia in a desperate drive to end the hostilities which have kept South America in turmoil for three years. Bolivia's rich oil fields were threatened...
Confronted with such a buildup, the Chambermen, smart for once, decided not only to play Roosevelt ball but also to assume leadership of the whole co-operative drive. It resolved that "utterances by the President encourage the belief...that he is receptive of suggestions for promotion of the common welfare." It pledged "fullest co-operation." It appointed a Recovery committee headed by none other than Silas Hardy Strawn, Chamber president under Herbert Hoover and die-hard New Deal critic. Within two days, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, still pinching itself incredulously, found itself the leader of the whole current...
...about one-fifth of the total U.S. home-mortgage debt. So last week, its job well done, HOLC announced that no more applications for loans would be accepted. Mortgages were no longer a Relief problem but a Recovery problem, to be handled by the Federal Housing Administration in its drive to rehabilitate the building industry...