Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of Labor Perkins announced that 1,100,000 industrial workers have been re-employed since March 4, weekly payrolls have risen by $29,000,000; 400,000 men got new factory jobs in July. Employment was at the October 1931 level, payrolls at that of March...
There is no greater state than Kansas. No mountains distort its surface. Its winding rivers are as precisely parallel as its level roads. The grain in its flat fields waves as if marcelled. Its citizens lead lives of regularity. Last week Kansans had as great a shock as if the Rocky Mountains had suddenly risen from their harvest fields...
...leading bankers, traditionally free traders, to reverse themselves sensationally and come out for the building of tariff walls around the Empire (TIME, July 14, 1930), which have since been built. Five weeks before President Roosevelt's inauguration Mr. McKenna asked: "Is it possible to raise our internal price level? Particularly can we do so by monetary management? ... I confess the thought of inflation, so long as it is controlled inflation, does not alarm...
...Trefusis' drawling way of expressing delight that her Mae West party galvanized Paris stylists into swift, devastating action. After the openings last week alert buyers, repeating the new in cantation "Edwardian or earlier," ruffled through their style notebooks to report : ¶ Waistlines are definitely stabilized at the level of the "natural waist" which must and will be emphasized by corsets. Stylists and corsetmen agree that there will be no wasp-waist pinching but high-bosomed, hourglass effects achieved by elastic sheaths, tight perhaps but with few corset bones or lacings. ¶ Daytime necklines are either modest...
...evening last week a file of cars climbed craggy Virginia Canyon 50 mi. west of Denver, rolled suddenly into the narrow street of an ancient mining town, wedged in a gulch a mile and a half above sea level. Above the main street the houses of Central City hang on the gulch walls like loose bark. Oldtime shops, dance halls, faro games, were going full blast, full of light & noise. Beaver-hatted men and bustled women strolled past. Lantern-faced miners smiled from their doorways. No Rip Van Winkle apparition in the mountains, all this was Colorado's second...