Word: reached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise the legal limit of the U. S. debt from $45,000,000,000, which it is to reach in 16 months, to $50,000,000,000. (The debt on March...
Most production indexes showed a steady rise from June to November when the " 15-week sidewise move" began. A corresponding rise in TIME'S index of Business Conditions (see below) took place from March to August, when the TiMEline wavered, subsequently to reach a new peak on the first of the year, and then begin another descent (which has not yet indicated a reversal of the major uptrend). This in no way contradicts the sidewise movement of other indexes, for the TIME index reports not production but the relative soundness of business conditions. Since business activity has lagged several...
Like many another genius, Edgar Wallace did not reach maturity until he was past 40. His full flowering came after the War. A new publisher saw Wallace's mass-production possibilities. He divorced his mousy wife, married his shrewd secretary, 23 years his junior, shaved his Old Bill mustache, hired a speed typist, slept a maximum five or six hours a night, primed himself for writing on gallons of tea, handfuls of cigarettes. By 1928 he was making $250,000 a year, owned a string of race horses (they lost as consistently as he did at poker), a fleet...
...Chinese servants while refusing to let Japanese work for him, evaded, stalled, levied a staggering rate of exchange. Their diplomatic technique was to say yes and do nothing. Harris' technique was stubbornness, honesty, hospitality. It was four years before he cut through ice and red tape to reach the Emperor. Yet so well did he succeed at the palace that when the British came along a few weeks later they only had to travel to the palace in Harris' palanquin to have their treaty signed in no time...
...income which is guaranteed to waitresses outside educational institutions and who are legally included in the Government's Social Security Program. Hence the University should step in and make a concerted effort to raise retirement incomes of employees who, like Suzie, will have no other income when they reach...