Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very diversity the cross-section is neither animal, vegetable, nor mineral. First, there is the desire to have in each House a certain percentage of men from each social level. There must be, in varying amounts, what some on has well called, "blue book men, telephone book men, and those who just use the phones in the entry." In addition the "balance" must be struck between intellectual and academic aims, outside interests, and geographical considerations. Since the first consideration, that of social diversification, seems the only one worth saving, the other elements, which only complicate an already intricate situation, should...
Meanwhile the cost of shelter, lagging behind changes in the general commodity price level, has risen only about...
...gold, rents continued to decline until the beginning of 1934. By last week U. S. citizens were well aware that rents were catching up with other basic elements in the cost of living. Once started, there was good reason to expect that rents would rapidly overtake the general price level.* The same factors that are making for revival in the building industry are responsible for stiffening rents. At the start of Depression surplus U. S. housing amounted to 700,000 dwelling units. By now, what with the increase in population and the almost complete cessation of building for several years...
...this policy succeeds in bringing together a group of men who are good teachers and good research men, will it be in any way justified. In any case, it will be most disastrous for the field if a definite step is not taken at once to raise the teaching level...
...champion of the Great American Farmer, Mr. Wallace has done more than his share. In the field of agricultural economics, his contributions in the matter of crop-yield forecasts and long range price-level predictions head the long list of his accomplishments and efforts in behalf of the famer...