Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lower than utility men would like but higher than they expected TVA to admit, the 52% power allocation for Federal power was notable as the first public recognition that TVA is primarily a power project. It was notable also in that TVA wholesale rates are 60% as high as private power rates, indicating that with a similar capital reduction private utilities could undersell TVA. "One of the most interesting angles of the allocation report," observed the Wall Street Journal, "is the flat assumption that the market will be obtained for all the power in calculating the earning power...
...Favor of F. D. R. in general are: 1) Negroes (84.7%) who like him on every point; 2) the Poor (75.1%) who like everything except his reorganization bill; 3) the Lower Middle Class (61.6%) who like him on his nine popular points; 4) the Upper Middle Class (52.5%) who like him on his six most popular points...
Placing the stamp of approval on his recently negotiated Anglo-Irish agreement, the voters of Eire in a general election for the Dail Eireann (lower house) last week returned lanky, professorial Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and his government to power for five more years. At last reports "Dev's" Fianna Fail party had captured 70 of the 138 seats, the Fine Gael party of his oldtime opponent, former President William T. Cosgrave, 40 seats, the Labor party six and the Independents seven. Under Eire's involved system of proportional representation, the final tabulation will be a matter...
...saltier of the Oslofjord's visitors were interested by her duplex bridge, with all the essential instruments of the enclosed lower portion duplicated on a hurricane bridge above. On the bridge no great spoked wheel governs the Oslofjord's, helm, but a modern button-control system-a button for port and one for starboard. To the suggestion that old-line Norse steersmen might prefer the traditional twirl of the wheel to this newfangled steering, weathered Captain Kjeld Irgens, commodore of the Norwegian America fleet, had a gruff answer. "Quartermasters," said he grimly, "shall learn to like...
...present low level of commodity prices not only chills business confidence and causes inventory losses but slows public buying in anticipation of still lower prices. Result is a general stagnation which continues until stocks are so depleted that extensive buying must be renewed, forcing prices to turn upward. Last week, Standard Statistics saw no sign of U. S. business reaching this fundamental crossroad in the immediate future. Neither did Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres in his monthly sound-off. True, solid gains in crop prices on the report of bad weather and rust jumped Moody's commodity index...