Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event that a dignitary doesn't merit such an enormous blast as given by a 21-gun salute all that has to be done is to lower the volume on the amplifier and this will give the effect of fewer guns...
When a business runs into hard times, it pulls in its financial belt. The present U. S. Government, while it will not trust business to mind its own affairs, is not a business. In spite of the Administration's anti-trust tirades and its plans for lower daily wages for the building trades, for reorganization of untenable capital structures like the railroads, when it came to the point it has shied away from meeting deflation by the orthodox means of scaling down monopolistic high prices, disproportionate wages and interest charges. "Because it is unpopular to readjust by liquidation...
...That was the year he lost the U. S. Open championship to one-eyed Tommy Armour by the slim margin of a 15-ft. putt. For the past five years he has maintained a scoring average that no U. S. pro could equal: he has never finished lower than fourth in annual scoring. Last year his form sheet* revealed that his 1937 average-in 82 rounds of competition-was 71.62 strokes per round (better than even fours, which is considered perfect golf), that his average finishing position was fourth, that he had won more prize money ($14,138) than...
...project work began 15 months ago converting the old single-track railroad line and its 80-mile string of ocean bridges into a 20-foot, two-lane highway between Lower Matecumbe Key and Key West. Widened and decked over with reinforced concrete slabs, the new road and its 30-year-old foundations are warranted hurricane proof by Government engineers. FERA and the Red Cross have built concrete storm shelters along the route, each supplied with emergency fresh water. The steel railroad rails have been economically reset as guard rails. Most of the workers were Key Westers from relief ranks, among...
...Nebraska and Iowa trade was off a mere 1.8%. Farm prices have fallen somewhat, but with bumper crops to market farm income has held steady. In neighboring Kansas and Missouri trade was off about 8% because depression in Kansas City and St. Louis counterbalanced country buying. In Texas and lower Arizona and New Mexico, the stability provided by bumper 9? cotton crops is notably enhanced by the oil business, about the only U. S. industry still going at close to full blast (because of war demand and the fact that people have yet to stop driving their cars). In that...