Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...page "United States Number" as a supplement to its regular edition. The 10,000 copies sent to the U. S. were snatched up in three hours, as amusing souvenirs, and the Times had to run off another edition of 10,700. At home, Britons studied their copies carefully, learned much about life in the U. S. The Times covered 150 years of U. S. history in four columns, which was 3 9/10 more columns than its issue of June 1, 1789, gave to the election of George Washington as President...
When Roman Catholics think that their faith has been flouted or their rights have been invaded, they get mad, form picket lines, write letters to editors, buttonhole legislators, in short, act like the political citizens they are. Protestants, whose aggregate weight is much greater, appear by comparison either meek or musclebound. But last week in Philadelphia a Protestant group took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and displayed capable biceps. A meeting of 500 Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that...
...several months much speculative cash has lain idle waiting till its owners got over speculating on economic trends. Three weeks ago some of the speculators made up their minds and the stockmarket moved tentatively upward without encouragement from industrial production. Last week the market slowly worked its way up past a minor "resistance point"-140 on. the Dow Jones industrial averages (1938 high 158.41; low 98.95)-waited for the sluggish railroad averages to "confirm" by rising from...
...Sewell Lee Avery's Montgomery Ward management and other big U. S. distributors subordinated profit margins to sales volume, ever since have bargained with inventory-ridden manufacturers to sell them merchandise at recession prices. This contrasts with the practice of many a small retailer who still sits on much of his 1937 inventory which is not yet completely paid for, and still holds out for pre-recession prices...
Speculators have taken these successes as signs of general increase in consumer purchases. Actually the general increase has been small; the mail-order houses and chains have increased profits not because the consumer cake is much bigger but because they have got bigger slices of it. Five months' U. S. department-store sales were up only 3% from last year against combined sales increases for Ward, Sears, J. C. Penney...