Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that we faced in 1933 no longer exists. I am fully aware that many of our problems remain unsolved. ... I am further aware that some persons contend that another great spending program is desirable to ward off the risk of another great business depression. . . . But ... I have reached the firm conviction that the domestic problems which face us today are essentially different from those which faced us four years ago. Many measures are required for their solution. One of these measures ... in the present juncture is a determined movement toward a balanced budget...
...Washington, where he arrived with a representative of the New York advertising firm of Arthur Kudner, Inc., thus giving the Windsor tour an unfortunate commercial air, Efficiency Expert Bedaux's reception at the State Department was cool. Even cooler was his reception by a group of reporters invited to cocktails at the Mayflower Hotel, which hoped to accommodate Mr. Bedaux's friends when they arrived. Efficiency Expert Bedaux failed to improve matters when, asked whether he was paying for the Windsor tour, he gave a noncommittal answer indicating that...
...scrawny, 17-year-old boy with a strong British accent got his first job as floor sweeper and general retoucher in the Chicago lithographic firm of Shober & Carqueville. A year later he was a scene painter for the Chicago Opera, priming the enormous backdrops with a large brush dipped in glue. This job he attacked so earnestly that at the end of his first day's work he fell in a dead faint on the floor. His name was Albert Sterner, born a U. S. citizen, in England, of naturalized parents...
...uproar resounded to Boston where Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot has taught thousands of Harvard students medicine and social ethics. Snatching up hat and coat he rushed down to Washington to exhort Dr. Brown's men to stand firm. This they did, and took care of 40 patients during their first day of business...
...doctors and pharmacists drug manufacturers are grouped under two categories -proprietary and "ethical," the distinction being that the former make medicines which are restricted from general manufacture by patent or copyright. Last week in Chicago a drug firm of each type made news through stock changes...