Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beyond these particularities, Cordell Hull struck out on his own: "From a level of slightly over $1,600,000,000 in 1932 and 1933, our exports rose to $2,280,000,000 in 1935* and continue this year on an upward trend...
Recovery has lately carried the magic figure to that level and more. Approaching the seasonal autumn peak, carloadings last week topped 800,000 for the first time in six years. The gain over the corresponding week of 1935 was 28%, but the comparison was distorted somewhat by the coal strike a year ago. So far this year carloadings have averaged 13.3% above the 1935 figure, though weekly gains last summer when general business was unseasonably good ran well above...
After considerable diplomatic verbiage, he came to the news that France was devaluing her franc. That was French news, however. The U. S. news was that: 1) the U. S. joined with Britain in welcoming France to devalue her franc to approximately the same level to which the dollar has been fixed, the pound maneuvered; 2) the U. S. made a purely gentlemen's agreement with Britain and France to try to stabilize their respective currencies at this level (30% to 40% below pre-Depression value), provided other nations do not start another currency war by cutting deeper...
...Farm subsidies equivalent to full tariff protection on the domestically consumed portion of crops, but no subsidies for large scale corporate farms. "Our cash benefits . . . will be limited to the production level of the family-type farm...
Another innovation is the memorial park which Hubert Eaton, a Los Angeles mining engineer, developed. Mr. Eaton's 350-acre Forest Lawn Memorial Park, which has been copied far & wide, contains no tombstones. Graves are marked by $50 copper plates level with the ground above the body. Mr. Eaton, who operates a funeral parlor on his grounds, discourages ground burials, recommends incineration in his crematory, inurnment and safekeeping in his columbarium. Above all, he prefers interment in a crypt of his gorgeous, statue-decked mausoleum. A refined selling point: Before a casket is sealed into a Forest Lawn crypt...