Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry went down by 8-to-1 and 5-to-1 respectively; the same measures for agriculture were smothered by margins only slightly smaller. Sentiment was 4-to-1 against court-enforced government codes for business; nearly 4-to-1 against government regulation of business profits. The Board grew specific about regulation. What about letting the Government set minimum wages and maximum working hours? Yes, replied more than half of the editors. Nearly three-fourths of the editors were sure their communities did not want the Government to redistribute wealth by taxation or any other means. Nine-tenths were against...
...that even the men who filed the cables grew bored with them. Week after week, month after month they had sent out the same stories: General strike threat. . . . Syndicalists riot in Barcelona. . . . Alfonso denies responsibility. . . . Fall of Government imminent. . . . Street fighting in Asturias and the Basque provinces. . . . Andalusian peasants rebel. . . . Generals arrested. . . . State of alarm declared. . . . State of alarm lifted. . . . All these things were true but the average Spaniard took his daily siesta, went to the bullfight every Sunday, ate a seven-course dinner at 10:30 at night...
...more he could have all his meals there. Fraternity treasuries felt the pinch as members dropped away from dining rooms, their chief sources of income. Mortgage payments came hard, and so did the fat sums which every local chapter pays into its national headquarters. Fraternity ties, never overly strong, grew weaker as Yalemen found friends among their college-mates...
Back of the venture is Alco Gravure Inc., controlled by Joseph Palmer Knapp who heads Crowell Publishing Co. and whose father set up an insurance company out of which grew Metropolitan Life...
...pence (about $34.95) Down went, the Scandinavian and other currencies which are linked to sterling through the economics of world trade. Down went the yen, so that Japanese exporters would not lose the markets they have lately gained. And when the international debate about the future of sterling grew raucous, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain either lied in his teeth or confirmed the world's worst fears when he said, in effect, that old England gave not a tinker's dam what the value of sterling might be in dollars. Hope of stabilizing the world's currencies...