Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflation.' Then, because that is unpopular, 'devaluation.' Now they are calling it 'dilution.' But it is all the same thing -fake money. Thus you have insecurity. Savings become illusory. Since nature is aristocratic, the valuable part of the population is reduced to the level of misery...
...Mexico City's Chapultepec golf course, 7,500 ft. above sea level in the shadow of 17,888-ft. Popocatepetl, mature peons with bare feet and huge straw hats caddy for sleek young Mexican businessmen, Rockefeller Foundation doctors, energetic members of the embassies. At Chapultepec last week, in the qualifying round of Mexico's national amateur championship, scores by Mexico's best golfers and a dozen U. S. visitors were almost as high as Mexico's best golf course. The medal went to Percy J. Clifford, Mexican-born Briton, for a 75. Johnny Goodman of Omaha...
...records for passenger, mail and express transport. Last week, faced by the winter slump which has always hurt passenger flying, TWA made the most important bid for travelers any U. S. airline has offered in a long time. This major transcontinental system cut its fares approximately to the level of ordinary railroad fares, considerably below extra-fare trains...
After a few years of experience in what they are doing, the powers that be in the war department should certainly be able to know the minimum amount of information a man can have in order to command his subordinates. Perhaps the level is low, I don't know, but you must realize that a second lieutenant isn't much and is in command of men who haven't had even the little education he has. If your advocate raising the I.Q. of the army...
Chances for reemployment of Massachusetts industrial workers back to the 1929 level is very slight, according to a report published by the Bureau of Business Research of the Business School which was published today...