Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's jobless still exceeded 7,000,000, most of whom would have to go through another bleak winter before getting work. From Feb. 15 to Aug. 15 the index of all farm prices rose from 49 to 72, with 100 (the 1914 level) as the ultimate goal. In 1932 gross farm income was $5,143,000,000. This year it will be about $6,360,000,000. The 1914 level was over $9,000,000,000. Since the President took office, mass purchasing power has increased...
...Ballard Vale full circle has now been cut in half, so that spectators need not move with shooters to keep out of gun range. The semi-circle's diameter measures 120 ft. Two traps, one ten feet high, the other at ground level, are stationed off either end of the semicircle. They are pulled by remote control. One shooting stand (No. 8) bisects the diameter line, seven others are at equidistant points around the semicircle. Shooters fire from each stand at two targets thrown alternately from the two traps, then from stands...
...trend of the evidence presented was of this order: that depression consumption of meat, butter, tobacco, grain, textiles, clothes fell very little if at all. That the consumption of steel and other metals and of lumber had fallen to less than half the pre-Depression level...
...aggregate, consumption of goods by the ultimate consumer has re- mained at a very high level even during depression. . . . Judging the character of stagnation in business solely on the basis of consumption, we find that the depression is marked by sharply reduced con- sumption of producers' goods. That the way out of depression is to increase consumption of producers' goods seems evident. ... At the present time, however, if such a balanced recovery does occur, it does not seem likely that it can be attributed in any large part to the current activities of the Administration...
Plain readers, who usually move up above street-level to do their book-reading, after reading Alice B. Toklas will find their faith in the limerick verdict sadly shaken, may begin to understand why Gertrude Stein's importance as a writer has received so many reiterated testimonials from writers of accredited sanity...