Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railroads' petition for a 15% freight rate increase began to present their rapid-fire testimony (TIME, July 27, Aug. 3). Shippers and manufacturers popped up and down in the witness stand to oppose Ex Parte 103 faster than the Press could keep track of them. The gist of their argument: if rail rates went up they, the rate payers, would divert more & more of their freight traffic to motor trucks and the steam carriers would be heavy losers. To this threat was frequently added another, namely, the removal of factories to tidewater where the producers could throw their transportation...
...France's turn, and she moved, as usual, shrewdly. She waved not a 300-million, but a 500-million-dollar loan in the face of Germany, but she insisted that German Ministers must discuss this loan in Paris first before going on to the London conference. The gist of the French offer...
President Hoover was not so certain. He kept repeating the gist of his formal announcement, that the Holiday had been accepted "in principle by all the important creditor governments...
...Shipping Board for $16,000,000, paid $4,000,000 down. It has two large ships abuilding which will cost $22,000,000, and on which but $2.500,000 has been paid. Last year U. S. Lines lost $728,000; this year they will lose more. The gist of Mr. Chapman's S. O. S. was that the Government should take back all or part of the fleet, allow United States Lines to operate them for the Government's account; or after payment of a lump...
That the Negro, North and South, has been harder hit by the Depression than the white man was the gist of a report handed last week to the Department of Labor by the National Urban League. Upon investigation the League found that whites, dropping down the economic scale, have taken jobs normally held by Negroes. Black migration to cities has made a bad situation worse. Declared the League report: "The economic structure of the entire Negro race is in an alarming state of disrepair...