Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after he became majority leader of the Senate in 1937, Alben Barkley fell asleep at the political switch. He allowed the antilynching bill to be brought up for discussion and got his party in a jam in the closing hours of the session. Last week he nodded again-with less serious consequences...
...less bright was the picture of Chinese finances. China has borrowed $25,000,000 from the U. S., hopes for $15,000,000 from Great Britain. Last week China canceled interest and amortization payments on debts secured by her customs because the Japanese collect nearly all the customs. At the beginning of the war there was an estimated $300,000,000 worth of Chinese assets held abroad. The present Chinese kitty is supplied with funds raised by taxing the internal transportation of goods, salt, cigarets and textiles, by floating some $200,000,000 worth of patriotic loans...
...credited with either the genius or the stubbornness of Dr. Schacht, Dr. Funk is not expected long to resist the demands of those Nazi radicals who have wanted to print bank notes against such newly created wealth as public buildings, roads. They have professed to be less interested in how much gold a ten-mark note represents than how much bread it will buy. As if in expectation of inflation, values on the German stockmarket rose in terms of marks, while German bonds elsewhere sank lower...
...that the peasants are census-shy. In the days of the Tsar they fled from or fought with census officials, fearing that their women were about to be carried off or that all the aged and feeble were going to be boiled in soap. Today their fears are less fantastic, more shrewd: they consider counting noses just another way of picking victims for purges, taxation, the army...
That Britain's airlines have not yet whipped the engine-strangling menace of carburetor ice (U. S. lines licked it in 1929 by heaters from the exhaust), was tragically demonstrated one afternoon last week. Less than two hours after Imperial Airways' four-motored flying boat Cavalier had left New York for Bermuda with eight passengers, a five-man crew, a series of terse, desperate messages began to reach the Port Washington base...