Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real inflation, but merely a reduction in the gold content of the dollar. This in other countries has been the end of inflation, not the forerunner. Charging that the people who are now raising the cry about the danger of uncontrolled inflation are creditors trying to protect their own interests against debtors, Mr. Bliven said that to him "it is unconceivable that the richest country in the world should go in for uncontrolled inflation. I don't believe the gold buying plan amounts to much...
...Nowadays with all the deception and trick plays, a player has to be smart to make a success. He must know how to run, how to block, how to protect against passes, and how to handle assignments on a varied list of plays. Teams now have more speed than they used to and why not, a player has an outfit that allows him to move agilely about. By actual weight a football uniform in my day in the last few minutes of play on a wet afternoon would weigh from 55 to as high as 65 pounds. How could...
...much cleaner than it used to be. There were fewer officials and fewer rules concerning roughness. Coaches were forced to teach their players 'dirty football' so that they would know how to combat it when an opponent resorted to slugging and kicking. It was a case of self-protection, and, if you failed to protect yourself, you would be incapacitated in a surprisingly short time. I had my nose broken in the first game of every season, and it wasn't because of an accident either. I played half one season with three broken ribs and finished up another year...
...Bank of England. In the majority were the two Scotsmen and the Western Canadian Premier. The Commission's minority-the two Canadian bankers-dissented on the grounds that a central bank would soon get messed in Canadian politics. Conscientious Lord Macmillan with his old laurels to protect warned...
...Treasury bills). *The Chamber also issued a pamphlet quoting without comment from two of Grover Cleveland's messages to Congress: "At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortunes of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage-earner-the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction-is practically defenseless. He relies for work upon the ventures of confident and contented...