Word: lowering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...enough data to convince him that such was not the case. His Mind of Primitive Man was published in 1911. When he was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931, that book was called "A Magna Charta of self-respect for the 'lower' races...
Forward are comparatively luxurious passenger quarters. Inside are 25 tiny, windowless cabins, each with two berths and running water. Outside are the dining room and lounge. Connecting them are a companionway and two 50 ft. promenade decks with windows. There are seven toilets, one shower-bath. On a lower deck are the bar and a smoking room, first ever built in an inflammable dirigible...
...failed to take these measures today. . . . "Other individuals are never satisfied. One of these, for example, belongs to a newly organized brain trust-not mine. He says that the only way to get full recovery -I wonder if he admits that we have had any recovery-is to lower prices by cheapening the costs of production. "Let us reduce that to plain English. You can cheapen the costs of industrial production by two methods. One is by the development of new machinery and new technique and by increasing employe efficiency. We do not discourage that. But do not dodge...
...mean more purchasing power and more goods consumed. It means just the opposite. ... If you increase buying power, prices will go up but more goods will be bought. . . . Higher wages for workers, more income for farmers means more goods produced, more and better food eaten, fewer unemployed and lower taxes...
...Even some of Mr. Roosevelt's own New Dealers will be surprised at it. Especially those in TVA, who have been boasting that lower electricity prices will stimulate consumption and who point with pride to the fact that in the TVA area sales of electrical household equipment have increased more than in any other area in the country. . . . [Mr. Roosevelt] has given the Republicans an opening for a real program built upon an effort to restore free competitive prices...