Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lower California ever been considered...
Since the U. S. is bound to figure financially in any Jewish territorial solution anyway, and since Mexico owes us a mounting debt for recent land confiscations, and since a good portion of Lower California is already owned by U. S. citizens (and therefore presumably confiscatable), therefore Mexico's debt might be applied against the purchase price of this territory which we could then present to the Jewish people...
...binding resolution deploring trade quotas and exchange control (such as practiced by Germany), pledging the nations to do everything possible to lower tariffs...
Fortnight ago Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors Corp. told a Senate committee that "America's production plant is obsolete," that industry should be stimulated to substitute new machines for old, thus increase production and lower prices (TIME, Dec. 19). But outright expansion, rather than improvement, is industry's usual objective. When consumer demand rises, new plants are built to increase production; then recession nips demand and the new plants are not needed. In the case of the Irvin Works, Big Steel was operating at around 90% of capacity when it broke ground...
...continuing prosperity. . . . Speaking generally, it is a fact today that America's production plant is obsolete, as measured by today's technology. The true way to enlarge present pay envelopes and provide more pay envelopes for more workers is to do those things that mean lower prices." Such price reduction, said Mr. Sloan, "can only be accomplished by increased productivity"-i.e., modernizing U. S. production...