Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anent the vituperative letter of one George Eustis Corcoran (TIME, May 21) relative to your publication of Samuel Insull's bashful physiognomy and the reporting of the Astor-Gillespie folderol, may we accept the compliment of "Being on a level" with TIME...
...smashing in the latter's bow and sending her to drydock. And while the fighting was fiercest, Captain William Woods Smyth, commanding the battleship Tennessee, had died of a sinus infection on the hospital ship Relief. Significance- Naval maneuvers have a way of firing the imagination of otherwise level-headed journalists and Exercise M proved to be no exception. "The most impressive and important maneuvers ever conducted by the U. S. battle fleet," breathlessly reported a United Press correspondent, "have demonstrated that the Panama Canal can be captured or destroyed by an enemy fleet and that a Japanese-American...
respiration, circulation, metabolism, acid-base balance, water balance, heat regulation, cardiac performance, excretion, blood gas transport, and subjective responses in rest and in work of varying intensity. Continuous observation will be made, but especially detailed programmes will be carried out at sea level, 5,000 feet, 11,000 feet, 14,500 feet, 17,500 feet, 19,500 feet, and the same stations coming down. As much as possible will be done at altitudes greater than 20,000 feet...
...still held up. Until this spring Wall Street's unqualified statement that the Securities Act stifled the capital market was wide open to question. Act or no Act, neither stocks nor bonds could be sold. In 1933 corporate security offerings amounted to $381,000,000-lowest level on record. Of this $220,000,000 was for refunding old issues, leaving $160,000,000 for U. S. Industry to grow on. In no single month from 1924 through 1929 did the volume of new securities ever sink so low as for the full twelve months of 1933. But since...
...bank control: even worse than a banking system run by privateers is a banking system run by politicians. Wrong is the Gold Reserve Act: it weakens the Federal Reserve System, sets up nothing in its place. Wrong is the effort to raise prices to the 1926 level: it is not the height of prices but their relation to each other that matters. Most wrong of all, in Mr. Warburg's estimation, is the lack of any decision as to where we are going. Right and alone right is a middle course of internationalism, based on lower tariffs...