Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murder among the Eskimos is fairly in frequent, always logical. Most usual causes are shortages of wives or food. But the 200 families on the Belcher Islands have a tradition of murder. Their forebears were banished there from the mainland 50 years ago for massacring the white men at Great Whale River. But this murder, according to Trapper Riddell, was a matter of theology...
...question of supply and capacity." He considers himself a supply commissioner as well as a price tsar; he plans to use all his power to put pressure on business to drop opposition to plant expansion. Major examples of such opposition: the Gano Dunn report (declaring steel capacity adequate); frequent assurances from the railroads that they can handle all the country's transportation needs without additional facilities. In this respect, Henderson's new commission represents a major setback for Director of Priorities E. R. Stettinius Jr., who never publicly questioned the Gano Dunn report, and Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd...
...bankers are "affiliates" or not. This decision meant that the coming spate of security distributions that must accompany the breakup of the holding companies will be an investment bankers' free-for-all-and an open field for new regional utility combinations too. SEC defended itself against two frequent assertions: 1) that enforced securities auctions "interfere with free enterprise" (Massachusetts, cradle of enterprise, has had such a law for years); 2) that they will slow up defense ("competition is the essence of that free enterprise, or American way of life which we are intent on defending...
...Helen Duey Hoffman of the Washington Housing Association said: "One bath for 15 or 20 persons is a common grievance. Three to six unrelated roomers in the parlor of a once fine private residence is not uncommon. Renting a vacant bed was once shocking but is now all too frequent. " Washington rents are the highest in the U. S. And there is no relief in sight, for another 100,000 migrants are expected in 1941, and new housing lags far behind demand...
TIME'S object is not to provide another and different measure of production, but to provide frequent, up-to-date reports on the same thing (production) in the same terms as the FRB index. For that reason the TIME production index is not only calibrated on the same scale as the FRB's index, but the FRB is used as a basis in its calculation so that there can be no long-term deviation...