Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improvement in business is most encouraging but we would view the future with more optimism if the present restrictions curtailing and almost preventing the use of long-time credit were removed. The business of the Westinghouse company consists primarily of durable or capital goods which are paid for in normal times by money obtained by our customers from the sale of securities. At the present time little, if any, money is moving into industry from this source due not only to restrictions on loans but also to a psychology which tends to discourage investment in improvements and betterments...
...multitude of detailed advances were made in technics itself. . . . The state of paleotechnic society may be described, ideally, as one of wardom. . . Competition: struggle for existence: domination and submission: extinction. With war at once the main stimulus, the underlying basis, and the direct destination of this society, the normal motives and reactions of human beings were narrowed down to the desire for domination and to the fear of annihilation-the fear of poverty, the fear of unemployment, the fear of losing class status, the fear of starvation, the fear of mutilation and death." But, while "humanly speaking the paleotechnic phase...
...choice will be made by the 106 members of the committee, one man and one woman representing each of the 48 states and five dependencies. Under normal conditions, national committees of both parties tend naturally to think of themselves in the spirit of a fraternity. In a way which, from a human standpoint, is rather fine, they sometimes base their preference for chairmen on old loyalties, long personal associations, long service, the spirit of promotion. In the present situation, two of those mentioned as available are men who have been members for more than twenty years...
...Bankers Association in Hot Springs, Ark. was pondering a report on the subject of bank robberies. Bank clearings in the 21 leading U.S. cities last week were up 82% from last year to the highest level since January 1932, but the week's crop of robberies was nearly normal. An ABA committee reported that in the six months ending Feb. 28 there had been 188 bank hold-ups by daylight, 29 night burglaries-an average of nearly nine per week. But the half-year total was down from 340 to 217. Scrupulously the ABA report cautioned that "there were...
...bicycle boom which dropped unsought into the laps of U.S. bicycle makers. In the middle of the 1890's when Daisy Bell ("But you'd look sweet on the seat of a bicycle built for two") was a song hit, 1,000,000 bicycles was a normal year's production but last year's production of some 350.000 looked mighty fine to the cycle trade...