Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sounds extravagant to say that the Government of the United States at the moment is giving concentrated attention to ways and means of spending money as well as lending money to people who can spend it properly...
...classes of products in manufacturing--those that are consumed immediately and destroyed and those of a durable character which are relatively permanent and are destroyed only by wear or accident. In normal times the output of each is about equal but during depressions the decline in necessities of the moment is much less than in durable goods. Thus consumable products, according to the Federal Reserve Board, showed a 32 per cent decline in the low month of 1932 as compared with 1929, while the durable goods declined 80 per cent...
Biographers, plying their little hatchets, would be the first to confess that this affectionate title possessed no small degree of accuracy. How, for example, is one to explain succinctly the character of a man who would in one moment defy a whole city, as Jackson did when he placed New Orleans under martial law, and who would in the next submit meekly to the sentence of Judge Dominick Ball, one of the major victims of that defiance? How is one to harmonize the picture of the man who caused the imprisonment of a Spanish commissioner in the common goal, with...
...will allow; eventually they will pay off with cheaper dollars. Carl Sriyder, economist for the Federal Reserve Board, was asked lately by a wealthy friend how he could hedge against all possible contingencies, including deflation or stabilization, so that he would die as rich as he was at that moment. "One way," snapped Economist Snyder, "is to shoot yourself...
...pilot always glided in, a poor pilot flew in. But that criterion has been outmoded by multi-motored ships and by modern engines which once warmed up, do not cut out. Transport operators hoot at the idea of danger in landing under power. They point out that at any moment during a landing, a pilot may need to gun his engines full blast to avoid collision, or to overcome a sudden shift of wind. Unless the engines have been turning over constantly, they will be choked and useless when he needs them. Hence the pilot "gooses" the motors with short...