Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speculators have taken these successes as signs of general increase in consumer purchases. Actually the general increase has been small; the mail-order houses and chains have increased profits not because the consumer cake is much bigger but because they have got bigger slices of it. Five months' U. S. department-store sales were up only 3% from last year against combined sales increases for Ward, Sears, J. C. Penney...
...debts there would be no investments, and nothing to be called capitalism.* It is important to keep debt and investment closely associated throughout these hearings. Otherwise you are going to get stump speeches on the horrors of Government debt and the sublimities of private investment. It is equally in order to talk about the virtues of Government investment and dangers of private debt...
...battleships awarded went to the Brooklyn and Philadelphia Navy Yards, giving navy yard ways five out of eight U. S. battlewagons now on order...
...Never Sets (Universal). A year ago his grateful country awarded the Order of the British Empire to shaggy, 75-year-old Britannic Cinemactor C. Aubrey Smith, and why not? His gruff charm, his unwavering personification of the stiff upper lip that always dresses for dinner, especially among savages, has made him an effective one-man propaganda bureau for the British virtues. The Sun Never Sets is another reminder that, as long as C. Aubrey Smith, O. B. E., remains above the horizon, the Union Jack will continue to fly at full staff over Hollywood. His main service in this cinema...
...young wife, a beautiful Communist, is killed in an accident, the doctor retires snarling to a cottage, makes friends with a philosopher-cop, gets mixed up in the strange suicide of an egomaniac artist, who personifies nihilism, Fascism, middle-class decline, spiritual corruption. Next the doctor founds a "lay order for the conservation of liberalism and decency." Also involved are his friend the cop, an undertaker, a journalist, the Spanish Civil War, a miscellaneous assortment of other People and events-Author Hyams evidently being under the impression that the fantastic and the dramatic are synonymous...