Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great is the name of Maytag in Jasper County, Ia. In Newton, the county seat, is Maytag Co's 14-acre plant, where last year some 1,500 workers turned out $16,984,966.28 worth of Maytag washing machines. In Newton, too, is many another reason why the memory of the late Frederick Louis Maytag still is green. Newton's 11,500 residents get their water from a Maytag-built system, their electricity from a plant which he established. They play in a $450,000 Maytag park, have a $1,000,000, air-cooled Maytag hotel, office...
...Phoenix, Ariz, it was 108°. From Arizona State Prison, lying in well-wooded mountain country near Florence, Warden John Eager wired Governor Rawghlie Clement Stanford: "It is a situation I can no longer control." The Governor hastily sent the National Guard to build a stockade near the prison. Reason: Because of a shortage of cells 200 trusties have been sleeping outside the prison walls, 15 had escaped in six weeks, five more had just escaped. Said Warden Eager: "You can't call it an escape, exactly. All the guards were out chasing convicts...
...Boarding the President's train like scores of other Congressmen, Representative Maury Maverick of San Antonio, unlike scores of other Congressmen, frankly gave his reason for doing so: "I like the President, and he likes me, and I want something." What Mr. Maverick wanted : help against hot-tongued Paul J. Kilday, close at his heels for the 20th District House nomination...
...headmaster: Kenneth Bonner, 47. The school: Redding Ridge School, Redding Ridge, Conn. Enrollment, 1937-38: 5. Enrollment so far for next year: 12. Teachers, 1937-38: 6. Teachers next year: 8. Tuition: $1,400. Reason for the increased enrollment: a unique idea in preparatory education which proved highly successful in its first year of operation...
...turn can best be done, not by taxing the rich and subsidizing the poor, not by Governmental spending, not by raising wages, but by a sustained industrial policy of cutting prices. Price reductions, say the Brookings books, are a basic part of the capitalistic formula-but for one reason or another in the last 20 years have fallen into disrepute and neglect with most capitalists...