Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Chairman Legge and Secretary Hyde insisted that private speculators were largely responsible for last week's wheat break, other economic reasons were obviously responsible: 1) an extraordinary world wheat surplus, with a consequent lack of foreign demand; 2) a "holding policy" promoted by the Farm Board which could not withstand a falling market; 3) falling due of farm taxes and mortgage payments requiring cash...
...decided that since the Rockefellers were giving fortunes to improve human life, he might well give his to improve plant life, upon which the human depends. Two years in Russia, as head of the Red Cross mission, which he largely financed, showed him vividly how devastating the loss or lack of food crops can be. He has, during the institute's six years' operation, given about $15,000,000. His only heir is a daughter...
...Besides, a role, however small, in the mass of homogeneous humanity herded like-driven cattle from city hall to the canyons of city streets provides a release from the hum-drum routine of every day life. When the best of all possible worlds is achieved it surely will not lack dissenters...
...newsworthy. For five months the coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans has been painstakingly revising downward industrial rates set by the House and by the Senate Finance Committee.* Last week the Tariff got back into headlines, not because of any startling new developments, but because of the lack of them. A great juggling match of political blame-fixing for the delay ensued. Once more the position of President Hoover, who last November "hoped" the Senate would pass the bill in a fortnight became a major conundrum...
...spent eight years in jail. Between sentences she married Jaffray Davis, drug addict, who gave her the narcotic habit. Other men kept her living in style while she worked in a burlesque chorus. When in prison, she would send well-written logical letters to her benefactors, deploring her lack of gratitude, begging for "another chance." Once free, she immediately relapsed to her old habits...