Word: low
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving from Palo Alto to San Francisco, to speak at a dinner of Young Republicans, ex-President Herbert Hoover hurriedly drafted a statement that turned out to be far more effective than the laboriously rewritten speeches that he polishes when he has time. "Civilization has struck a new low with the Communists' attack on peaceful Finland. It is a sad day to every decent and righteous man and woman in the world. We are back to the morals and butchery of Genghis Khan...
...Seven years of Franklin Roosevelt have taught Republicans, high & low, to turn the beady eye of suspicion on "That Man's" every proposal. Hence they looked sharply at a suggestion emanating from "a source close to the President": That the public interest might best be served by a postponement of the 1940 conventions to a later date than usual...
During the past twenty years Romance Languages have dropped off from a high of 10 per cent of the upperclassmen to a low this year of only 3 percent...
...hides (15% of its cattle hides, 25% of its calf, 50% of its sheep, all of its goat skins) a year, the industry has seen hide prices jump 10 to 30% since the advent of World War II. But shoe prices are only 12% above their Depression I low, are fully 30% under 1929. That, say U. S. shoemakers, is giving the U. S. pedestrian a lot of shoe for his money. To the shoe industry, that also means a lot of business for its prices: 1936 and 1937 sales topped the 400,000,000-pair mark (an all-time...
Despite the present low birth rates in rural New England towns. Carle C. Zimmerman assistant professor of Sociology, states in an article appearing in the "Planners Journal" that as western society clarifies its future and begins again to move upon some objectives, birthrates will increase...