Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deficit was $409,000,000 smaller than in 1934 because revenues increased $697,000,000 and the New Deal had been unable to spend money as fast as it thought it could...
...whereas the cars would be paid for in dollars good anywhere on foreign exchange. With these dollars which, like all foreign money possessed by Germans, would be at the Government's disposal, necessary purchases could be made abroad of materials now urgently needed by Realmleader Hitler's fast expanding Army, Navy and Air Force. Last week in Berlin most businessmen agreed that the dumping fund was set up chiefly because German War Minister General Werner von Blomberg has been loudly complaining that he cannot get together a proper lighting force if obliged to equip it with German Ersatz...
...that time the Diesel engine was a cumbersome, slow affair which weighed some 250 lb. per horsepower, had a top-speed of 500 r. p. m. But heavy or light, slow or fast, it was still the most efficient engine in the world. Mr. Cummins set about making the Diesel engine lighter, faster, kept an eye cocked on Europe and its Diesel-powered vehicles...
...Tribune office, perch himself on the desk of his father's secretary, Agnes ("Mac") MacDonald. spout a stream of questions: "What does so-&-so do? Is he smart? . . . What is that voucher for? Why is there a 2% discount marked on it? . . . How much does newsprint cost? . . . How fast can the presses turn out 1,000 copies? . . ." He was still asking questions when he rushed through Harvard (cum laude) in three years while taking Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's famed English 12 course and working on the editorial staffs of all three campus publications-Crimson, Advocate, Lampoon...
Businessmen talked fast and long last week about salvaging the good features of their respective codes. Trouble with that idea, as with the codes themselves, was the conspicuous lack of agreement on what were good features. What was good to one group was bad to another-if not within that industry, at least to another industry. The Oil Code, largely honored in the breach even before the Supreme Court cracked it open last winter, irritated the big oil companies and pleased some-but not all-little fellows. Actually the passing of the Oil Code will have little effect...