Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tactful, 43-year-old Dr. Davison hopes to turn the compromise between the hospital and the A.M.A. into a lasting peace. Chicagoans, weary of squabbles and political scandal, hoped that he would plump for a bigger appropriation to buy more bedpans, provide more ward space, keep beds out of corridors...
> Exports, counted on since September to absorb overproduction, still got nowhere. Brightest spot was Latin America: October takings were up 14% from September, 18% from October 1938. But cash buying is a luxury for Latin America necessitated by War II's cutting down its barter trading with Europe. By...
> Steel, No. 1 U. S. industry (which weights no less than 18% on the Federal Reserve Board's Index of Production), has been running at 93.9% of capacity, well ahead of consumption, but the temperamentally optimistic Iron Age reported that orders for early 1940 production would account for only...
> At the outbreak of War II, steel manufacturers, inadequately stocked for capacity runs, fearing that war exports would cause a famine of steel scrap, cleared out the junk yards, sent the price of scrap skyrocketing to $22.50 a ton, but capacity production yields a good deal of new scrap, and...
Only once did he break his quota, in 1937 when rising prices forced him to hike it $200,000 to keep his unit production constant. Even so, he turned down at least $150,000 worth of business that year. But never has he turned down so much business as lately...