Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Reserve Board announced last week that its adjusted index of U. S. industrial production (calculated on a 1923-25 "normal") dropped from 121 in December to 115 in January. Yet except for December, when business was abnormally high for that time of year, the Reserve Board index stood at its highest point for any month since October...
Impulsive and dogmatic, Farley and Cummings find the traditional system of checks and balances a nuisance, and as such they are willing to go to any lengths to achieve their purpose. Blind to the normal way of governmental procedure, they are perfectly willing to give unprecedented powers to a Chief Executive, who already has more power than any President of the United States has ever had before. Like all egotists they are impatient with those who stand for traditional forms of change, and are slaves to the shadows of their own righteousness...
Robert is now a freshman at Shurtleff College in Alton. He hopes to become a lawyer and escape the curiosity of normal size people. Frequently he exclaims: "It's not my fault that I'm this way. ... I didn't have anything to do with my getting this...
...sensations of touch, pain or temperature in his feet. Says Dr. Humberd: "He is unaware of a wrinkle in his sock or a foreign body in his shoe until a blister, followed by an ulcer, is formed." His ears are oversize, his heart in proper proportion, genitalia small but normal...
...While normal world consumption of copper has picked up sharply with general business Recovery, and record armament programs have jumped Europe's consumption near record levels in history, there was apparent by last week still another reason for the copper boom. Vast amounts of the red metal were going into hoarding, either by profiteers or as outright war reserves. Estimates of total copper hoarding in Europe ran as high as 400,000,000 lb., equal to nearly one-fourth the entire U. S. output last year...