Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Much of the credit for Harold Ickes' book goes to able Historian Dr. Saul K. Padover, who assembled the facts, earns thanks in the preface for "research . . . wise counsel . . . help." America's House of Lords on eight occasions quotes TIME as its authority. But, said Harold Ickes of TIME lately: "I never read the Goddamned thing...
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.'s Paul W. Litchfield this week fixed a figurative bayonet and counterattacked the wartime forces that tend to inflate prices and costs. In full page national ads, full-jowled No. 1 U. S. Rubberman Litchfield announced tire price cuts of as much as 12½%, in spite of a wartime increase of nearly 25% in the price of crude rubber (August 29, 16¼? a lb.: Oct. 27, 20½?). After "streamlining" plants and methods, costs were slashed to absorb September's rubber inflation as well as the rubber business' big complaints...
Last week U. S. powermen were frantically looking for plants with spare capacity to help out others whose capacities had already been overtaxed. They had already begun to give impressive orders for new equipment : $70,000,000 ordered since the war began. They were drafting specifications for perhaps as much as another $100,000,000, to be ordered before the end of the year...
...reason for expanding power sales is that today every installation by industry of high-powered modern machinery adds huge wholesale loads to electric consumption. With a possible boom at hand and more than half of U. S. machinery still well over ten years old (and not using as much juice as new units), if industry begins to modernize on a big scale the utilities may have to step lively to keep...
...Ever since Japan took on the Chinese war, she has been buying twice as much as she has sold to the U. S. Her import balance in U. S. trade for the first seven months of 1939 was 258,000,000 yen. To replace German imports, to get deliveries before the Allies buy the output of U. S. factories, and before the U. S.-Japan trade treaty expires next January, the Japanese have boosted their U. S. purchases by approximately one-third. That put Japan on the spot...