Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working class is showing increasing irritation. Brailsford feels that these in control will continue to wait, letting things contract until the bottom is reached and all public debts have been completely reduced. Then at the World Economic Conference, they hope "to engineer a scheme of international inflation." Meanwhile wages drop lower and conditions become worse...
...ideal remedy for an economic depression that has lasted so long. Sane economy requires a policy of controlled inflation to keep the buying power of money constant. An example of this may be seen in the agricultural actions of this country where grain prices have taken a disastrous drop while mortgages have remained the same. Retrenchment in the long run leads the boarding and the tying up of credit and money. Whatever the present condition of England may be controlled inflation is the only way in which to encourage people to buy and by establishing credit open...
...Harmon Trophy for each year's top air feat among the nations. He has long tried to interest the League of Nations in establishing an international air force to be called "Silver Wings of Peace." One of its functions would be to fly over troubled countries and drop tracts begging them to forgive their enemies. Col. Harmon (variously nicknamed "Major" and "Judge"') housed the League in the Bois de Boulogne where he occupies an office as president. (Albert, King of the Belgians is honorary president.) The office, like his apartment, is a museum of aviation trophies, medals...
...than a year ago. For the first nine months of 1932 the 73 roads made 48.4% less than in 1931. The extreme low was in July when returns were only one-fifth of 1931's figure. Last week's carloading report (week ended Oct. 22) showed a drop of 8,405 cars to 642,173. The normal trend until the year-end would be a steep decline but railroadmen last week were inclined to expect better-than-normal performance...
...arrived in the automobile in which he pursues rats throughout the U. S., bringing with him two large suitcases and his young wife. Ratkiller Nicholes went to work. Wherever rats were plentiful he distributed pieces of bread, hamburger steak and apples, in each piece of food a drop of his chemical (barium carbonate with a slight touch of barium sulphide). Because the Nicholes poison is comparatively slow acting the rats do not die on the premises they infest. Hungry human beings who might eat the poisoned food, which is odorless would not be harmed. They would vomit immediately. Rats cannot...