Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 25%. In the U. S., world's biggest rubber buyer, rubber consumption dropped as much as 8,000 tons per month and the price to 14? a lb. Last December, therefore, the I. R. R. C. again met in London, cut the rubber quota for the first quarter of 1938 to 70% of the base...
...French masses are not easily aroused but soon some 18,000 workers in five factories of Citroën Motors ("The Ford Of France") went on a sit-down strike and, without stating specific grievances, hoisted red flags. While they continued to sit, quarter-hour sympathy sit-downs were staged at the Farman, Caudron and other vital French warplane factories. All this was extremely peaceable, without riots or even the summoning of police, but everyone remembered that in 1936 over 1,000,000 workers walked out as a means of: 1) pressing the first Popular Front Cabinet of Premier...
...Georgia audience it was. In the Far West business was far better than in the industrial East, but business sentiment was just as bad because ownership of U. S. industry is not so localized as the factories. And looming on the scene were industrial reports for the first quarter, generally expected to be terrible. Even the Government's business was bad last week. Contradicting advance reports, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced: "I would guess that income taxes might run between $20,000,000 and $50,000,000 below our estimate...
...building by its own weight, then the dull, shuddering, colossal detonation from the cellar. In accordance with Douhet, the objective was considered to be the whole city: the shattering of the morale of its people and the Leftist Government. Thus no particular targets were aimed at and every quarter of Barcelona, slums, palatial avenues, business quarters and parks, received the bombs...
...valley, the new $15,000,000 plant can turn out 70,000 gross tons of steel a month, but it employs a maximum of 2,000 men. And under last week's slim demand for steel, the mill operated smoothly with scarcely a man in sight for a quarter-mile at a stretch...