Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Time Around? Those who assume that present economic conditions in the U. S. are surely going to continue for a long time, are inevitably startled when they consider what would happen to the U. S. as a neutral in another world war like the last. Subsidizing merchant shipping is the only way that the U. S. can keep its flag on the high seas. In a world war U. S. shipping might become a highly profitable business. Keeping heavy industry, particularly steel, busy is a No. 1 national problem. In a war steel, copper, chemicals, oil would...
...farm problem is one of the New Deal's gravest. U. S. surpluses of corn and wheat would vanish like magic at ever rising prices. Greatest of all present economic problems is unemployment. During a prolonged war the problem would be to find not jobs but men-WPA would become a fantastic memory of an archaic era. The political as well as the economic problems of U. S. life would be entirely different...
...induced inflation but the profits were for the most part taken from them by the high cost of living. Everywhere war produces a shortage of the goods that make for real prosperity in peace. For war is the opposite of free trade. A world war shuts off trade, like shutting the gate of a dam, at one clap, and it may take years for a mutually profitable exchange of goods and services to reestablish itself...
With business-like efficiency, Vanderbilt and his well-drilled crew went after the Tomahawk with which his arch-rival had hoped to scalp him. In the first race, sailed in a gale that sank one of the competing boats and drowned a seaman, Vim finished 37 minutes ahead of Tomahawk, but was disqualified for crowding Sopwith's sloop at the start. In the second race, Vim beat Tomahawk by 28 seconds, in the third by seven minutes, in the fourth by 51 seconds, in the fifth by eight minutes. When the flags came down at sunset on the last...
...linotype operators still worked. Most of the Journal's, 500 employes did not know just what had happened until noon the next day, when the first edition of the Minneapolis Star-Journal appeared. "Well," said one of the jobless 500 (150 of them later got jobs), "it looks like the Journal but feels like the Star...