Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna news of the Englis suggestion caused foreign holders of Czechoslovak crowns to dump their hordes frantically. At Prague the Czechoslovak Government tartly declared that "Professor Englis' suggestion is far from being realized," emphasized that only two days before Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Eduard Benes ("Europe's Smartest Little Statesman") had affirmed once again that the crown will not be taken off gold...
...quota) from world supply. This is about 20% of world production. This will undoubtedly tend to raise the world price but if private hoards of silver begin to leave India and China (which hold 600,000,000 oz.) or if Manhattan's silver speculators decide to dump their 100,000,000 oz. holdings, the inflationary effects of the new policy will be blunted at the start...
...structure is being left as it is and out of it is being created the new Civil Works Administration. . . . This program certainly cannot benefit the heavy industries. It cannot produce much that is valuable between now and Feb. 15. It will certainly lead the localities more and more to dump their entire relief problem on the central Government. It will certainly discourage the private building industry. ... It will certainly cause men who are now loafing on made work with nothing to work with or at, to loaf more hours. ... It will certainly afford an alibi for the incompetents...
...since President Harrison flung open the Oklahoma Indian Territory has the U. S. seen anything like what it will see next week when Prohibition is stricken from the Constitution. On that April morning in 1889 a surging column of men on foot, men on horseback, men in buggies, buckboards, dump-carts, whole families in covered wagons stretched across the prairie in a straight line. Men fought and cursed and jockeyed for a front position behind Federal troopers. At noon a bugle blast split the air. On to the old Indian lands swept 50,000 men, women, children, pioneers, drifters, squatters...
...Polo when the mortgage was foreclosed. In 1922, year before he left the Moline Plow Co., he and Hugh Johnson wrote a pamphlet called Equality for Agriculture which, like the later McNary-Haugen bill, permitted the farmer to grow all he could, setting up a Federal agency to dump surpluses abroad. That was his debut as an agrarian agitator. In 1926 Mr.. Peek became chairman of the Committee of 22 of the North Central States Agricultural Conference. As a mem ber of this body he buttonholed Congressmen for two years, trying to pound home his ideas on farm relief...