Word: power
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drive to deprive him of his unprecedented monetary powers the President had parried (TIME, July 10). But within six historic days: the legal authority of most of the "alphabet" administrative agencies set up under the New Deal was gravely threatened, its Labor program was imperiled, its yardstick utility plan was circumscribed and back to the State machines went a great share of the political power that Franklin Roosevelt had spent six years gathering into Federal hands. Hardest blow of all landed on his nose, which the Senate feared he wanted to stick too far into international power politics...
This meeting was at Franklin Roosevelt's invitation. It was an act, not of self-abasement like Neville Chamberlain's trip to Munich, but of cheerful desperation. He wanted to tell the Senate's leaders face to face why he needed a free hand in world power politics, what was going on in the mad world abroad...
Last week, Wall Street noted that power production for the week ending July 1 was 14% ahead of last year and slightly ahead of 1937, added this to Bond & Share-New Deal good-will and the chances of more SEC-holding company deals. Result: the Dow-Jones average of 15 utility stocks rose for eleven consecutive days, making the second quarter of 1939 look like a straight line advance for at least this group...
...most such farms horses are the only tractors Year and a half ago Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. invaded this market with a cheap light tractor. Last year Deere & Co followed; month ago Motormaker Henry Ford. No jitney tractor, however, was announced by the giant (29½%) of the power implement industry; tough, sprawling International Harvester...
...full load it will operate on one gallon of fuel per hour, is designed to replace one team of horses, will plow, disk harrow, cultivate, plant, haul or act as a small power plant...