Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a comparatively live issue. Before the days of Prohibition, the law as it stood prohibited the sale of beer to anyone under the age of 21 years, but for a time the age-limit was lowered to 18 years, and then, after some months, restored to its former level...
...unsold cotton, provided they agreed to reduce their 1934 crop 40%, their 1935 crop 25%. That was 1? per Ib. above the spot market price and represented a potential outlay of $400,000,000 by the Government. Cotton futures went churning up above the proposed loan level. Southern pressure for inflation eased off. Next move to finesse the inflationists by upping commodity prices came out of the White House in the guise of an unemployment relief measure. The President announced that in 30 days A A A would start buying $75.000,000 worth of surplus cotton and foodstuffs...
...Bradstreet reported a sharp gain in retail buying. Housewives, who had lofted department store sales in August 16% above the 1932 level, were flocking back to the counters; the downward sweep of the long-delayed normal summer slump seemed to be flattening out. Best buying was in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast. Said D. & B.: ''No small part of the maintenance during the last few weeks of the headway made during the spring and summer months is attributable directly to the relentless enterprise of the NRA. . . . There has been no abatement in the rise of employment...
...block of 100. The additions and subtractions in each case are indicated in the "change" column. Summation of the gains and losses incurred coincident with the change in the number of accommodations at each price, indicates a loss of income of $8800. Hence the increased price level makes possible the changes indicated on page 15, with a change in the total income of plus $15 for the University...
...would provide instant employment if the capital funds were available for the manufacturing industries to start work. Also if more people are employed, they in turn need consumable goods and that sends the prices up so as to cover the labor costs and the usual additions to the price level when business is booming...