Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME had best drop any pretense at impartiality if it continues to feature such photographic abortions which, indicative of neither character nor appearance, should be consigned to the darkroom trash barrel rather than to the printing press...
Said Chamber of Commerce President Frank Drake: "Newton is not big enough for The Maytag Co. and the C. I. O. The businessmen have decided they'd rather have The Maytag Co." For standing up for the strikers, Congregational Pastor E. A. Remige was asked to resign, did so last week, saying: "I have simply maintained there are two sides . . . but one can't say that in Newton without getting into trouble." For contempt of court in connection with an injunction restricting picketing, the union's young (27) international president, James B. Carey, and two other officials...
...illegal for one company to purchase the capital stock of another when the result might substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly. FTC claims that the farm-equipment industry is an example of this law's effective evasion through the purchase of competitors' assets rather than stock. FTC therefore recommended to Congress that the Clayton Act be revised so that no company controlling 10% or more of its industry can absorb any other company in the same industry...
Facts and Figures- "Mass production demands mass marketing" but as soon as demand slackens, says Dr. Nourse, the industrial executive cuts operations, lays off workers, increases promotion, tries installment selling-anything rather than cut prices. There is obviously a flaw in a system under which industry works only at part capacity, as it generally does. Dr. Nourse believes that if industry always operated at full capacity, the U. S. economic problem would be solved. The industrialist reluctant to cut prices as a means to this end might take a leaf from the farmer's book. Unable to limit...
...their acid comments, Low's cartoons have usually had an owlish, good-natured air that kept them from being really bitter. He presented people as stupid and self-righteous rather than wicked or frightening. For years his satire has been summed up in Colonel Blimp, a pathetically pompous old walrus who inhabits a Turkish bath and periodically sounds off. "Gad, sir," exclaims the Colonel, in a cartoon called Onward, Colonel Blimp! "the reason our government is always getting kicked in the pants is that it doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried...