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Word: leveler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...meet unrestrained competition. . . . Price wars necessarily injure small independent marketers. . . . Therefore, I am requesting and authorizing you, as Chairman of the Marketing Committee, to designate committees for each locality when and as price wars develop, with authority to confer . . . and in a co-operative manner to stabilize the price level to conform to that normally prevailing in contiguous areas where marketing conditions are similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shade of Sherman | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

Fear of strikes has continued to inspire steel consumers to buy more than they need at the moment, but the insistent and unseasonal demand for metal from U. S. industry has amazed the most sanguine observers. Operations entered August at 71¼% of capacity, highest level in six years. Prospects of a general business upsurge in the autumn are so bright that a brief reaction in steel operations, originally expected last month but now predicted before Labor Day, would probably clear up what little excess steel inventory there is. In Pittsburgh last week the price ol steel scrap forged ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Steel from Slough | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...steady green light and green paper or walls should be in the bedrooms of young male children as this color raises the male sex urge to a higher level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Miracle Man | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...Roosevelt speaks with the voice of prophecy. . . . It seems to me that he understands the great underlying issue of our time-the fact that what mankind is struggling for, whether it knows it or not, is the establishment of an economic democracy on at least as high a level as political democracy has attained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Salt, No Pepper | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...weeks butter has gone up, not down, faster than at any time since the post-War inflation when butter sold wholesale at 60? per lb. At last week's quotation of 33#&162; per lb. butter was about 30% above the May figure and at the highest summer level in six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bread & Butter | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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