Word: norms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense, Stahley has plenty of material but to date none of the men have shown themselves to be anything more than mediocre. Norm Blotner, Ralph Livingston, and Joe Magurn have had the starting call to date, but they are being hard pressed by Ben Ferris and Dick Lewis. Livingston has been hampered all season by a bad leg, which has slowed him down considerably...
With the medieval city of the best period, like Middleburg, Holland (see cut p. 43), as his working norm, Arthur Mumford finds that the next age transformed the city impressively but to no great purpose, began its degradation through overcrowding. Serving a centralized State, baroque architects cut through the capital city with long, expensive radiating avenues for the king's triumphal parades, built palaces for him and barracks for the new institution of the standing army. The new institution of the proletariat they lodged in the first tenements, built over the medieval garden spaces. Sanitation fell behind as congestion...
Hank Riecken, a big 200-pound Junior, is holding down the goalie position for the second year, with Jerry Cook pressing him hard. At the points Ralph Livingston, a veteran, and Sophomore Norm Blotner are the leading candidates. Blotner is a rugged ten second man who did well as a Freshman and seems to be headed for a great season this year. Ben Wilcox and Dick Lewis are other possibilities here...
...President Roosevelt declared that a prime New Deal objective was to raise commodity prices to the level of the ''normal'' year 1926. Last spring, when the commodity price level (Bureau of Labor Statistics) was still only 88% of the 1926 norm. President Roosevelt announced that commodity prices in general and steel and copper prices in particular were too high. His remarks precipitated a worldwide slump in commodity prices, which have fallen almost steadily since, were last week back to 80% of the 1926 norm.* Last week Franklin Roosevelt once more delivered himself on commodity prices...
...trying to get back to the 1926 price level? Yes and no. The object is more to establish a balance of prices than to reach a norm...