Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early stages of recovery the heavy industries such as steel lagged behind. So it was advisable to prime the pump by public works. Now. he said, the situation was reversed. The durable goods industries were making more rapid progress than the consumer goods industries. The prices of their products were going up accordingly. For example, some mines can produce copper at 5?, or 6? a Ib, but copper was selling at 17?. And the price of steel was up $6 a ton. These prices, he intimated were too high, much more than covered increased labor costs, meant that a larger...
...Franklin Roosevelt, or as a literary man, no more engaging listener. The result of the Governor-General's visit is, therefore, that when Britons of the world assemble next month for their Coronation, there will be not one but two gentlemen present - Lord Tweedsmuir as well as Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King - who have recently visited the White House and are ready to tell the Empire what a fine fellow Franklin Roosevelt is, ready to put in a good word for the great peace plan of which the President vaguely dreams...
...those things. But if U. M. W.'s strength is in Leader Lewis, his strength is no less in that great union, some 500,000 strong. Its half-million votes, plus its $150,000 contribution to the Democratic campaign fund last summer, have made him a prime political power. Needing money for the C. I. O. campaign which has carried him to Labor's peak, he raised-and can raise again when he needs to-a $1,000,000 war chest simply by tapping each of his miners $1 per month for two months. As he sped back...
This was difficult, since British editors felt they had to print and British news agencies felt they had to distribute such information as that in the House of Commons last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet was shouted at by War-time Prime Minister David Lloyd George in words which could scarcely fail to vex Il Duce. "Stand up to Mussolini!", roared the Welshman. "Earn some respect for Britain! ... I'd rather have Italy's anger than Italy's contempt." As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members...
...years ago a group of sportsmen and businessmen organized More Game Birds in America, Inc., early realized that, so far as ducks were concerned, conservation in the U. S. was only a fraction of their problem. Not overshooting, but destruction of breeding grounds by agriculture and drought was the prime cause of duck decrease. And approximately 80% of all ducks shot in the U. S. breed in Canada-chiefly on the prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In 1935 More Game Birds surveyed the Canadian region, saw what needed to be done. This year it is ready with a well...