Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutted a rambling pessimistic speech by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald which was called "far below his usual level...
...large percentage of the survey courses, of which the college notoriously has a surplus. Such an arrangement would not bar properly qualified undergraduates from advanced courses any more than it does today. It would eliminate the ambiguity of purpose which clouds much lecturing here and help to raise its level substantially...
...Order. Its basic concept is not one but an endless series of Five-Year Plans, stretching off into remotest future. Jan. 1, 1933 is the date set for completion of the Five-Year Plan about which everyone knows. Generally speaking it has raised Soviet production above the pre-Plan level, which level was from 4% to 37% higher than the pre-War level and was far above the pit of stagnation in Russia's famine year. The Plan has marked a tremendous stride toward industrializing Russia and toward proletarianizing Russians, but the Plan has fallen and is falling short...
...reported. Shortsellers, claimed farmers, were thus given free rein. But in grain circles it felt that the drop was due to the withdrawal of bullish speculators from the market when it became plain that U. S. wheat, long buoyed above world prices by the Farm Board, was seeking a level which would make exports possible. Although the Farm Board has been out of the market since June 1931 its huge wheat holdings, estimated at 28,000,000 bu., and the prohibitive U. S. wheat tariff, have created an artificially high price for U. S. wheat. This year...
...Arthur Salter writing on the future of economic nationalism in the current issue of Foreign Affairs lifts the discussion of the present crisis out of the level of immediate economics into politics. The world is faced, as he says, with a choice between a further development of the closed national economic units contained within high tariff walls which we have at present and a breaking down of these barriers to allow international circulation of trade. But it is not merely a choice of two economic systems, it is a choice of two contrasting world orders...