Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought seriously of a rearmament program last year when Congress ordered the Navy Department to report on the need for new naval bases. Early this month when Congress got that report, everyone had heard plenty about rearmament. And last week one item on that program raised a major question of policy...
Although eleven men figured in the scoring, it was Princeton's junior line of Bob Bordley, Horatio Turner and Ralph Wyer, called by Coach Dick Vaughan as good a forward line as any in college hockey, that inflicted the major punishment on the Blue. Among them, this trio accounted for 5 goals and 9 assists, Wyer himself getting 5 assists...
...important commentator last week could find in the fabric of U. S. industry any moth hole big enough to justify a major stock slump. Signs for optimists included...
...National Association of Manufacturers has listed seven other companies in which similar annual plans were in effect last year.* But the guaranteed-wage idea got its biggest boost when General Motors adopted it last fall (TIME, Nov. 21). Last week it looked as if guaranteeing wages might become a major business trend for 1939† three more concerns jumped aboard the bandwagon and Jay Hormel announced a new scheme...
...similar propaganda campaign was begun after U. S. imports dropped to 76,400,000 Ibs. in 1934 from 96,600,000 Ibs. in 1933. With the governments of the major tea-growing nations (except China and Japan) putting up $1,000,000 annually for promotional activities handled by a Tea Bureau, U. S. imports were boosted back to 95,000,000 Ibs. in 1937-about four-tenths of a cup a day per person...