Word: productively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other observers of human behavior who hold opposite views from the learned professor. Says Anthropologist Robert Briffault, "stupidity is deliberately, laboriously, vigilantly cultivated by the established institutions of medievalism, barbarism, and savagery, whose survival in a world of multiplied intelligence requires that stupidity -a stupidity which is an artificial product. It is not innate, it is not inevitable." Said famed Political Economist John Stuart Mill, "of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character...
...garages and warehouses. The surrounding area was worried by a California butchers' boycott on Oregon turkey.* A. F. of L. teamsters were still boycotting beer carrying the red union label of A. F. of L. Brewery Workers, Dave Beck having manned most Northwest breweries with beery teamsters whose product bears a white union label. Portland beer parlors serving ''red label" have had their windows smashed with monotonous regularity...
...series of panels tells the story of cotton from the field to the consumer. Various steps in the planting, ginning, and picking are shown. Succeeding panels demonstrate the manufacturing processes and finally, the finished product...
...Hollywood's Hays office, the Institute last month complained: "This Institute is, of course, composed entirely of producers of American whiskey such as rye and bourbon, and they feel that an imported product which contributes little or nothing to the economic life of the U. S. seems to be unduly favored. It is not their contention that rye or bourbon should be specified, but that it might be possible to use merely the term 'whiskey and soda' which . . . would, even in pictures with an English setting, be more correct since it is the form the British...
...building, prime hope for renewed industrial upswing, continued to tread water as lumber output, already off 15% from last year, sagged 9% more. Automobile production was down from the previous week to 89,770 units, compared with 84,780 for the same week last year. Makers were notably laggard about buying materials, and the New York Herald Tribune predicted a downtrend in the next few weeks. Electric power production fell but was still 4% above last year. Rug sales are a good prosperity gauge because rugs lie as close as any luxury product to the hard floor of necessities. Last...