Word: lull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year of great labor upheavals, last week's ample budget of strikes all but constituted a lull. Many of them, like the Plymouth four-day walkout of 11,000 workers at Detroit, were caused by jurisdictional disease. Some of them, like the grave diggers of Kansas City who in one day kept ten bodies from burial, originated in nothing less prosaic than demands for union recognition, closed shop and wage increase. However, if strikes failed to make labor news, three utterances...
...People do not attend church in the summer months," deplored the Protestant Episcopal Chronicle last week, echoing many another earnest denominational organ. "This seasonal lull seems for the present, at least, to defy solution." To the problem of hot weather shirking, two ministers last week reported two original solutions...
...vast number of people who will be buying on credit will, of course, not recognize the danger and they and the affected businessmen will resent interference. Many soothsayers will arise to lull any fears. It will be pointed out that an overexpansion of credit cannot be near at hand because brokers' loans are low and security credit under strict control. (This will be the same type of argument as the 1929 one that inventories were not over-extended and therefore no great danger existed.) It will be pointed out with great pride how well installment selling fared...
...strike against three big independent steel com- panies-Republic, Youngstown and Inland -subsided. In Detroit, where fortnight ago United Automobile Workers organizers were beaten at the entrance to Ford's River Rouge plant, the fighting shifted to court. On both fronts the combatants took advantage of the lull to maneuver for position. On both sides the sense of injury grew deeper and darker...
...bright are agricultural prospects that farm buying has been suggested as the fillip that might lift industry out of a mid-summer slump. Even Wall Street's gloomsters do not seriously believe that Recovery has run its full course. At worst they expect a normal summer lull to develop into a temporary business recession...