Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip ended, Benson & Rixon introduced the world's first ready-made two-pants suits-1,000 of them at $17 to $22 each. Customer response was feeble. Undaunted, Mr. Benson tried again with 4,000 two-pants suits, all at $17. These, aggressively advertised, sold. Manufacturers, sensing fewer unit sales, fought the innovation, but it caught on, became a trend. By 1929 Benson & Rixon's one-store $200,000-a-year business had developed into a seven-store chain with annual trade...
...event that a dignitary doesn't merit such an enormous blast as given by a 21-gun salute all that has to be done is to lower the volume on the amplifier and this will give the effect of fewer guns...
Although Chicago has 100,000 fewer Negroes than New York, it is the centre of U. S. Negro business; last census figures showed Chicago's Negro establishments had annual net sales of $4,826,897, New York's were only $3,322,274. Chicago's Negroes all hail from the South, work generally as laborers in packing plants and steel mills, have a community feeling; New York's are less homogenous, work mostly in hotels and apartments. Great majority of Chicago's Negroes live in a south side section known as Bronzeville. Here the principal...
...jailed their Lewises, Greens and Homer Martins, he lumped them together, willy-nilly, in the government-controlled Labor Front. Over it he placed 48-year-old Robert Ley (pronounced Lie), party henchman and passionate organizer. Dr. Ley did not at once promise his charges more wages, or fewer hours of work, but he did promise job security, no pay cuts and the Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. Strength Through Joy provides sports, inexpensive cinema, theatre, military band concerts, exhibitions, holiday trips on its four ocean liners. Last week in Hamburg 18-year-old Lieschen Kiesling, pretty factory worker...
Issued by the U. S. Public Health Service last week was a report on the prevalence of communicable diseases. So far in 1938 there have been fewer cases than usual of influenza (off 87% from last year, 50% from 1935 and 1936), meningitis (off 30% from the five-year average), scarlet fever (off 10% from the five-year average), diphtheria (up from last year but below the average). Diseases of which there are epidemics...