Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heartsick Leader Rayburn let antique Adolph Sabath bring up the Housing bill. And again the knife fell, as Republicans Mapes and Wolcott brought figures to show that Housing under this bill would cost taxpayers not $800,000,000 but $4,380,000,000 in the next 60 years. Showman Martin of Massachusetts stepped aside to let a freshman Democrat, handsome young (31) Albert Arnold Gore of Carthage, Tenn. deliver the coup de grace. Gore, who got his law degree from the Nashville Y.M.C.A., roared in his maiden House speech...
...Chamberlain, were demanding Mr. Cartland's political hamstringing, that Mr. Chamberlain, like Mr. Roosevelt, faced a purge of his own party. The vote-245-to-129-gave the Government a comfortable majority, but because many a member was already on his way to vacation haunts, it fell 115 votes below average, looked bad on the record, made it plain that the Government had misjudged the anxiety of all voters, the misgivings of all parties...
Fighting defensively on a six-to-twelve-mile front, Gamelin's 9th fell back slowly, until on March 26, when the German advance had traveled 28 miles, it was almost isolated as units on both flanks gave way. Gamelin was faced with two possible movements: he could withdraw at once and take heavy losses, or counterattack on his flanks and, risking annihilation, take the chance of pulling his people out in comparative safety that night. He prepared to attack, moved his headquarters to the front, casually invited some British generals in to dinner-it was just before the emergency...
Building. Another grave omen for steel production (15% consumed by building) was the fact that last week, engineering construction awards fell 4% below the preceding week, 13% below the (high) corresponding week last year. The big difference was due to the sharp drop in non-Governmental contracts, down 30% from last year. In residential building, F. W. Dodge reported awards for first 22 days of July at the rate of $112-to-$115,000,000 for the month, barely up from June's disappointing $111,000,000, off substantially from...
Last month, Federal Housing Administration anticipated an increase in applications for insurance on new mortgages. But for three weeks to July 15, FHA's volume of new business (which had been up 32% from 1938) fell 10% below the $65,180,129 of applications received in the same period last year. This reversal was due to a sharp drop in applications on houses already built. But applications for houses to be built ran only 15% ahead of last year against a margin of 68% enjoyed earlier in the year. To offset this, FHA this week made another reduction...