Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free competition. In prosperous times, the efficient farmer is willing to reap his reward in a greater profit margin, and will tolerate the selfgratulatory gabble of his inferiors so long as his own sales volume is unimpaired. But when price becomes a sharp issue, he is wont to maintain his volume at their expense, which is what is meant by free competition. Immediately the hinds call treason, puncture the tires of his trucks, and attempt to root him from their community...
Public Works Emergency Housing Corp. has broad powers to "construct, re construct, alter and repair" apartments and houses, to lay out, build and maintain roads, parks, playgrounds, sewers, bridges, walls. For the present its policy will be not to compete with private building projects but to supplement them with loans, and, eventually, to turn its activities over to state, county or municipal housing authorities. The corporation's immediate objective is the acquisition of low-cost land "by private contract if possible, otherwise by eminent domain, which power is derived from the National Recovery Act." Unofficial estimates placed the corporation...
...dollar will be. To guess at a permanent gold valuation now would certainly require later changes. . . ." This was definite news: a promise that stabilization of the dollar is not to be expected soon. 3) "When we have restored the price level, we shall seek to establish and maintain a dollar which will not change its purchasing and debt-paying power during the succeeding generation." This intention he had mentioned once before. Now he left no doubt that he wanted to establish a "commodity dollar." 4) "The United States must take firmly in its own hands control of the gold value...
Continuing its upward climb in the House football league, Lowell House defeated the Leverett Rabbitts, 12-7, yesterday afternoon, and moved into a second-place tie with Winthrop House. The Adams Gold-Coasters, who were idle yesterday, still maintain a precarious one-point lead...
...Henry Ford will probably appeal the verdict, it was the first Leland victory in the ten-year fight. Originally Ford sued Sweeten for $6,800 in unpaid notes and interest, but the agency promptly filed a counter suit for $160,000. Sweeten claimed that Henry Ford had promised to maintain exclusive Lincoln agencies in 75 cities, that this was soon cut to 40 and Ford dealers began to sell Lincolns. The more Lincolns the Ford dealers sold, the less Sweeten and other Lincoln dealers sold. Henry H. Rudolph, a former Sweeten vice president, swore that when he told Henry Ford...