Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...section of "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (the South). 2) Wage-hour conditions in the textile industry are notoriously vulnerable. 3) Textile labor is well-organized and politically effective. 4) As the son of a Rhode Island textile lawyer. Tommy Corcoran knows plenty about low textile wages...
...World War French 75s, improved to give faster fire and greater range) rolled into place behind motorized infantrymen, who made long marches by truck. New mortars arched shells into supposed enemy lines with an accuracy never approached in 1918. "Silhouette" machine-gun units went into battle firing from low-slung trucks. Some of the army's 283 light tanks tried out against new anti-tank guns which can supposedly stop any tank within range...
Russians who wanted facts turned from this fighting budget speech to a meaty report Commissar Zverev made in the official publication Bolshevik. In this, Commissar Zverev blames on his purged predecessor, Grigory Grinko, four major shortcomings in Soviet finance: 1) persistently low purchasing power of the ruble; 2) long arrears in salaries which the State owes to personnel of the Motor & Tractor Stations (some have been unpaid for as much as two years); 3) closing by the State of a total of 26,000 Soviet savings banks and institutions; 4) chaotic conditions in the Soviet tax system...
...where for some months rising wholesale prices have paradoxically countered falling industrial production, a slight improvement has set in. . . . Only in Scandinavia is business maintained at a high level, but even there certain signs of a recession in investment activity have appeared. The recession has gathered way in the Low Countries; and the Far East must still be counted out of the commercial ring. Elsewhere, mainly in the British countries and Latin America, trade is just hobbling along, as it was earlier in the year...
Through his publicity agent, Bernarr Macfadden, 70, let it be known he had bought from Flier Jacqueline Cochran Odium a low-wing Northrop "Gamma" monoplane which Howard Hughes flew when he established his 1936 U. S. cross-country record (9 hr. 26 min. 10 sec.). With his new 225-m.p.h. plane, Publisher Macfadden, who has had 1,100 hours of solo flying, promises he will compete for the Bendix Trophy (Los Angeles to Cleveland, Sept...