Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred Beiter was determined to get nearly half of the relief appropriation earmarked for the heavy permanent projects of Secretary Ickes' PWA. Their argument: not only does PWA give the country something for its money, it is boosting the construction and other heavy industries back to normal. At the White House last week President Roosevelt, who is sold on Harry Hopkins' quick jobmaking, said NO to this Congressional group, refused to haggle over a $400,000,000 compromise. Calling a Democratic caucus, the bloc was voted down, 70-to-53. When Leader Beiter rose in the House...
Marshal Badoglio caused a great stir in Paris when he announced that he was taking over the French-owned railroad from Addis Ababa to Djibouti (see col. 3). Before long normal rail service to the coast was restored...
...handled in a devil-may-care fashion, but the effect usually falls short of amusing. A soapy soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby number one. The next is a business marriage in which the wedded couple don't mean business. Then there are those awful namby-pamby European counts...
...proposals which President Roosevelt sent to Congress in March were aimed at two major ends: 1) Radical reform and simplification of the complex U. S. tax system by repeal of existing corporate taxes, substitution of a tax to be paid by corporations on their undistributed incomes, plus normal income tax to be paid by individual stock-holders on their dividends...
This does not mean that 2,000,000 families are now camping in the woods waiting for houses to be built for them. Building has merely fallen behind the net increase in the number of families and the normal rate of housing obsolescence. The slack has been more than taken up by two or more families sharing what is rated as a one-family house or apartment. During Depression the usual method of doubling up was for young married couples to return to their parents or for parents to descend upon their married children...