Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loan of $100,000, the banker might well demand assurance that the loan would be repaid. A room full of newshawks who had never seen $10,000 a year blinked appreciatively at this interesting statement. Franklin Roosevelt beamed at the response it got. He was drawing a fanciful parallel to describe his views on a practical matter: crop loans to U. S. farmers...
...piled up such huge funded debts while paying juicy dividends to stockholders. Last week for the first time a 70-car bill, introduced by Nevada's McCarran, was passed by the U. S. Senate, without a record vote. The Senate sent it to the House, where a parallel bill was marking time in committee. Observers were uncertain just how favorably the House would view the bill, but were agreed that the 70-car measure was in a better spot than ever before in its legislative history...
...other portion, blended with the first and running parallel to it, is the equally romantic but far more vigorous story of the discovery of oil in western Pennsylvania. The home-drilled well that Peter Cortlandt has rigged up behind his grandmother's house comes in the day of his wedding, spouting a geyser of oil that drenches the wedding party and turns the bride's dress black. What follows is Peter's epic fight with the head of a railroad line (Alan Hale) for control of the new industry. When the railroads boost freight rates to force...
...Parkway turned it into a toll road. At 50? per car or $110 per season, some 290,000 automobiles used the speedy road annually during the next decade. It was the best route to the swanky Hamptons. Lately, however, the development of great trunk parkways along Long Island, parallel to their curvy forebear, has cut its traffic to a bare 23,000 cars in 1936. Last week, bored with paying some $45,000 a year in taxes, Mr. Vanderbilt offered to give the old Parkway, which is now assessed at $1,100,000, to the public. President Robert Moses...
...since the days immediately after the war have the citizens of this country been subjected to such powerful forces. In fact there are many analogies between the emotional atmosphere of today and that which existed during the first years of the European struggle. I cannot help drawing a parallel between the American scene into which you graduate and that into which I was graduated in 1914. One difference there is, and that a major one. You are already aware of the stresses and strains present in Europe and those which have been set up by induction in the United States...