Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tyrone Power (20th Century...
...straits even in fair weather, the German Republic collapsed under the weight of the 1929-34 depression in which German unemployment soared to 7,000,000 above a nationwide wind drift of bankruptcies and failures. Called to power as Chancellor of the Third Reich on January 30, 1933 by aged, senile President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Hitler began to turn the Reich inside out. Unemployment was solved by: 1) a far-reaching program of public works; 2) an intense rearmament program, including a huge standing army; 3) enforced labor in the service of the State (the German Labor Corps...
...indictment stressed the power of the A. M. A., which claims as members 110,000 of the 145,000 practicing U. S. doctors and, as a corporation, has an income of several million dollars a year. The A. M. A., said the indictment, "condemns as 'unethical' group medical practice on a risk-sharing prepayment basis principally because such practice is in business competition with . . . doctors engaged in [private] practice...
...with pleasant memories at least with grim thankfulness. Steel production, at 52% of capacity, was double that of a year ago. The stockmarket, though dawdling, was doing so on a plateau 25% above 1937's year-end levels. Virtually every index of production or distribution-building, power, car loadings -had enjoyed an upward surge...
Immediate result of low prices is likely to be higher corporate profits, for many companies can buy raw goods cheap without reducing the prices of their finished products. Sooner or later, however, such profits fail, undercut by lack of buying power among producers of raw materials. Last week, for instance, the Department of Agriculture announced that farm income of $6,400,000,000 in 1938's first eleven months was 13% under...