Word: norm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio time he controls. He tossed a bombshell into the 1936 election campaign with the announcement that KFI and KECA would not carry President Roosevelt's fireside chats during the campaign unless the stations were paid for the time. Well might Manager Holliway vary from the norm. His boss is the stormy petrel of California broadcasting: Earle Charles Anthony, automobile dealer with a State-wide chain of Packard agencies, who took up radio in the early days, believing it might provide communication between his agencies. Instead of organizing a network like fellow Automobile-Dealer Don Lee (Cadillac, LaSalle, Oldsmobile...
...getting little schooling or none at all. It found some 3,300,000 children of school age (5 to 17) not enrolled in any school, found even in relatively well-off Wisconsin 55,000 youngsters who get less than 90 days of schooling a year (the U. S. norm is 200 days). Most squalid intellectual slums are in the South. Worst slum: Alabama, with only 59% of its children in school...
...does not strike very close to home to tell the average U. S. citizen that commodity prices are at 50% of the 1924-26 norm (Dow-Jones). Index figures always seem a little theoretical. Last week, however, the public had plenty of opportunity to be impressed as dollars & cents first-quarter reports for many U. S. businesses put Depression in terms that anyone could understand. With the exception of a few fortunate industries, the figures were unanimous in showing that business has taken a tremendous beating in the first three months of 1938. Samples...
...July 1932, lowest point of the Hoover Depression, the Department of Labor estimated U. S. factory employment at 60.4% of the 1923-25 norm. By March 1937 this index was up to 101%. Last week Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced that in March 1938 the figure had fallen to 81.7%. The Roosevelt Depression index showed an increase in non-agrarian unemployed of 50,000 since February, 2,450,000 since March a year...
...Norm Blotner, a Sophomore, is a ten-second man who has been coming along rapidly. He is a shifty runner and clever on the defense, but has been held back by poor stickhandling. Lewis, who played superbly against Maryland, was sick for the next week, and has not returned to his top form since. Playing his first year of lacrosse Ferris has done surprisingly well. Other men who have played some are Ben Wilcox and Ed Behr...