Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their boundaries. Britain, France, Belgium pleaded that they had already absorbed their capacity, Australia turned in a flat "No" to Jews, and the U. S. announced that she would combine her former annual Austrian immigration quota with her German to admit 27,370 persons (who can support themselves) from Greater Germany next year. Almost sole note of encouragement came from eight Latin American nations: Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and the Dominican Republic (which nine months ago massacred 1,000 neighboring Haitians because they moved into her territory), offered to accept a limited number of refugees if they...
...some 750 millions.) Last week President Roosevelt ordered the Treasury to undertake a tax study for the edification of the 76th Congress. In the next twelve-month the Treasury's deficit may well reach 4,400 millions and shoot the National Debt up over 41 billions-six billions greater than the figure of $35,026,000,000 which Franklin Roosevelt anticipated 17 months ago would be the peak of U. S. debts...
...Compton prefers this explanation for another reason. If the cosmic particles were thought to come from outside the Milky Way, it must be presumed that all space is filled with them, that they represent a vaster total of energy than star light - in fact, the greater part of the energy of the universe. If they are of Milky Way origin, however, their intensity is reasonably set down as an effect of "local" concentration...
Last week Merchant-Yachtsman Foote set out for Puerto Vallarta to claim his $25,000 Tira, undecided as to what sort of punishment should be meted out to boys who would swipe a yacht to hunt buried treasure. Some people thought Merchant Foote would exact no greater penalty than making the boys, as crew, sail the Tira back to Santa Cruz. "Gosh," he said wistfully as he departed, "I wish I had been on that trip. . . . I have been used only to cruises around Monterey...
...brought prices back to the pre-1928 days. As striking as this news was another aspect of the reduction: prices at Big Steel's Birmingham and Chicago plants were for the first time lowered to the Pittsburgh level. Announced reason for the change: "Increased production facilities and greater diversification of products" in these two steel centres. To the steel trade, however, it meant that Big Steel, sniped at by non-union independents since it made a wage contract with C.I.O. and pinched by their price concessions had finally abandoned its long time policy of playing ball, was going...