Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production was no in 1937 and it will probably be 85 or 86 in 1938. It now seems likely that its average in 1939 will be about 104. . . . National income seems likely to make a new high record for the recovery period, and to be a little above the level of 1937. . . . Average freight loadings may advance about 15%. . . . Automobile output in 1939 should be between 30 and 50% larger than that of 1938*. . . . Wholesale prices will probably advance slowly. . . . It seems probable that the average price of all stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange will be higher...
Situated on a ridge of rock that rises above the Passaic, N. J. meadows is the suburban town of Rutherford. Rising above the dead level of contemporary U. S. poetry is William Carlos Williams, one of the town's busiest doctors. A worshiper of beauty and music in a town that is short on both, he jots down poems in any free moment that his medical practice affords. Last month appeared his Complete Collected Poems (New Directions, $3). Unlike the run of poets, Williams does not use his poetry as an escape from his cramped environment...
...bales reached last week. Only 56% of the tobacco farmers said Yes, less than the two-thirds necessary to invoke the quota, far less than the 86% who shouted Yes last spring. And rice farmers, whose reserves did not reach the 11,974,000 bushels quota level for this year, made their first vote a hearty...
...provided tuition in universities and psychiatric clinics for groups of teachers, supervisors, school board members, ministers, newspaper editors, physicians, nurses, dentists, veterinarians. The Foundation also offered to help build new schools. At first the inhabitants voted down these offers, were apathetic to this attempt to lift the general level of living of the whole community. But gradually the Foundation saw to it that the schools acquired toilets and electric lights, better instruction and medical attention, and in general the darkened communities began to grow bright, cheerful and happier...
...President Roosevelt has pointed out, housing conditions in this country have sunken to such a level that they constitute a national problem, a problem with which the present generation must come to grips. Earvard, by its action, has shown that it is still in close touch with actualities and is as anxious as the Democratic Party to relieve "one-third of the nation...