Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apple that TWA will do a swell job with the new "excursions by air" at lower rates [TIME, Nov. 15]. However, maybe TWA and the other big shot airlines don't appreciate that there are many many thousands of us traveling men, oldtime "Knights of the Grip." or "Angels of Commerce" "Commercial Tourists" (or what you will), who would jump at the opportunity to go home over weekends from where we might be by air, but the outward trip should be Friday, not Saturday, or even Thursday (for the long week-enders). To compensate for moving it back from...
...spring of this year he suddenly announced that it was his opinion that commodity prices were too high, although they actually were lower than the level of 1926. He followed this up by doing everything in his power to restrict freedom of markets and the freedom of capital goods industries in the United States. This led inevitably to acute devaluation with the result that, at the most critical moment, the underlying strength of the democratic countries has been greatly diminished and the dangers of war perceptibly increased...
...sabotage the University can hardly defend itself, and the effectiveness of the great service that all the public and educational institutions of the United States render American citizens, lies at the mercy of the government. Although the powers that be may restrict business activity, inflate the currency, and lower the purchasing power of the dollar, they should consider the effects that such a policy has on all those institutions that depend upon fixed returns from invested capital...
...that climaxes Submarine D-1 is taken in a reassuringly even stride. Under the unruffled direction of Lieut. Commander Matthews (George Brent), everything goes like clockwork. In the equalizing chamber the crew stands chattering about horseraces and San Diego girls while water creeps up to their waists, submerges the lower end of the tubular escape hatch. Presently the hatch cover is raised, a line attached to a cork buoy shoots upward to the surface and the men don "escape lungs," resembling hot-water bags. Then with clips holding their noses and mouthpieces gripped between their teeth, the crew in alphabetical...
...Freight cars. were 12% less full. Automobile production dropped to 83,000 units against 116,000 for the same week last year. The National Industrial Conference Board announced that employment had fallen 6.4% since August.* Lumber and power output slipped again, and national advertising lineage in newspapers was 16% lower than last year. About the only thing that could have halted a market slide in the face of such statistics was good news from Washington. This there had been for Little Business, in that part of the President's address to Congress which favored lowering their taxes. The stockmarket...