Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Lap, Three new things in the automobile world were visible on 1934's New Year's Day: 1) slightly higher prices for the lowest priced cars to offset, in part, the rising cost of automobile materials; 2) independent front wheel suspension ("knees")-old to Europe-to make cars of General Motors, Chrysler and others "easier riding"; 3) streamlining in a big way-Walter Chrysler's bid to claim the distinction that he made the buggy a bugaboo. A few years ago a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas named Byron Cecil Foy began...
...amalgamated departments. Third, Washington has now taken for granted that the President will ask Congress to continue the R.F.C. with added grants for its financing. This is a much neglected but very important sector of the Recovery program; on it devolves the responsibility for huge loans and expenditures to offset the paralysis of the private money markets. The R.F.C. may be a hangover from the wicked Hoover regime, but it has its points, nevertheless. CASTOR...
Star delegates of the Conference were silver-haired, sweetly reasonable U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Mexico's darkling, pugnacious Foreign Minister Puig Casauranc, high-powered salesman of the idea that there ought to be a Spanish American League of Nations to "offset" the Yankees and Canadians. Uruguayan Communists let Senor Casauranc alone-though Mexico does not recognize the Soviet Union-but strewed the path of the U. S. Secretary of State with leaflets reading "Down with Bandit Hull! Down with Yankee Imperialism...
...Gulian, Littlefield, Brookings, and Casale are the other members of this year's squad who will be back in the line in 1934. At the ends there will be Shaun Kelly and Walter White, while the backfield's great losses in Johnny Dean and Danny Wells will be partly offset by Haley, Lane, Litman, Locke, Adzigian, Janien, Prouty and Moseley...
...necessary to the successful execution of its recovery and unemployment relief program. The specific result of such an expenditure of government flat would be a stimulation of physical production which would, as soon as it reached the markets, exert a downward influence on prices sufficient to offset the initial upward influence of the new purchasing power. And the elastic limit of physical production in this country is still a long...