Word: peg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 1, 1935 were down 41%. Domestic consumption is off 22%. The world surplus of U. S. cotton, cut two million bales since AAA began its reduction program in 1933, is still an 8,000,000-bale glut on the market. Of this AAA, which pegged the domestic price at 12? through its loans to growers, holds half. And its holdings are rapidly increasing since the domestic market price slipped fy under the peg in March (TIME, March...
Since the New Deal's legalists had hung NRA's power to regulate Industry on the constitutional peg of affecting "the flow of interstate commerce," the Nields opinion was a potent body blow to the Administration. And, as if anticipating an appeal from his decision on "emergency" grounds, Judge Nields added: "The suggestion that recurrent hard times suspend constitutional limitations or cause manufacturing operations to so affect interstate commerce as to subject them to regulation by the Congress borders on the fantastic and merits no serious consideration...
...morning paper like the Herald Tribune than in an evening paper like the Sun or World-Telegram. Suddenly Porter Carruthers jumped to announce that the staff would now try something new in attacking this old problem. Two porters wheeled in a piano. Composer Fred Fisher ("Dardanella," "Chicago," "Chasing Rainbows," "Peg o' My Heart," "There's a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway"), took his place at the keyboard. Lyricist Stella Unger vocalized the latest Fisher-Unger work, especially commissioned by the Herald Tribune. Soon that paper's linotypers, compositors and rewrite men on the outside were astounded to hear...
...Theatre, the whimsical flavor of the Alice Hegan Rice classic has been brought to the screen intact. It is a story of life in a small Ohio town during the later buggy and moustache cup period, only a few decades removed in time, but centuries away in spirit. The peg-top trousers and bombazine gowns, the town drunkard and the cruel banker, even the glorious extravaganza at the local "opera house" all bespeak that happy epoch before the pestilence known as Radio had standardized our American scene...
...plant 40 miles out of Chicago to Barrington, Ill. chiefly to provide better living and working conditions for employes. The nautical influence of its top executives is evident in hotly competitive selling groups, organized as "pirate crews" with "captains," "buccaneers," "able seamen" and a mysterious figure at headquarters called "Peg...