Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farley. Evidence of his political maturity was that he did not stand in the way of special WPA pay raises so opportunely given in Kentucky and Oklahoma last month. In these two States the primary opponents of Senators Barkley and Elmer Thomas had pointed at local WPA wages lower than those paid in neighboring States, shaming these two Roosevelt favorites for not doing better by the home folks...
...sufficient to depress this year's prices. So Mr. Wallace invoked the powers-granted him in the new AAA, instituted drastic control, got a majority of farmers to approve by referendum. Last week Mr. Wallace's analysts announced the result: a cultivated acreage of 26,904,000, lower than any since the Department of Agriculture began to keep tabs in 1909, and a prospective crop of about 12,000,000 bales (unofficially indicated, because Federal law prohibits official bale forecasts before August...
...received the least attention is the power of the Nazis with the workers," wrote Sheean. "The proletariat of Vienna had little reason to love the last two regimes to which it was subjected [those of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg]. The new regime appeals very powerfully to the whole lower middle class and to a great part of the workers. . . . Under the new regime the proletariat has been rapidly absorbed into . . . the Arbeitsfront [labor front...
...last week the captain of a tuna boat radioed a brief account of the Tira's odyssey. Although the Tira had an auxiliary Diesel motor, the boys had journeyed entirely under sail. After many days at sea they put in at Magdalena Bay, near the tip of Lower California, but the Mexican coast guard sent them on their way. Days later they missed their next landfall, Cape San Lucas, sighting no land until the Tres Marias Islands, south of the Gulf of California, hove into view. Thence they sped to Banderas Bay with a tropical typhoon whistling in their...
...source of a geyser's energy is supposed to be hot volcanic rock not far from the earth's surface, and the eruption is a self-accelerating physical process. The geyser's tube or pipe fills up with ground water or rain water. At the lower end it is heated by the rock. Because of the pressure of the water column, the temperature rises above the normal boiling point before steam is liberated. Once steam begins to form against the pressure, it raises the column, spilling water on top. This reduces the pressure below so that steam...