Word: revamped
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This extraordinary borrowing is obviously not yet completed. Nobody knows exactly how many more billions Mr. Woodin will need to buy preferred stock in reopened banks, to relieve unemployment, to do over Muscle Shoals and the Tennessee Valley, to refinance farm and home mortgages, to reforest hills, to revamp railroads, to boost wheat, cotton and other prices. Selling a huge bond issue will not be easy until the public knows i) that the ordinary Budget is balanced; 2) what limit is going to be set on extraordinary expenditures...
...that this was done to permit the President to dismiss the lot without notice and end operations overnight if his farm experiment proved a failure. Many a member flayed the measure as the worst ever, but announced his support of it on the theory that the Senate would probably revamp...
...crop of curly reddish hair the round pug-nosed face of Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long of Louisiana glared pugnacious defiance across the Senate Chamber at Virginia's famed Carter Glass. The bill that "won't go through before March 4" was Senator Glass's to revamp the Federal Reserve system. Senator Long, opposed to its branch banking features, was out to talk it to death. He waved his arms in mighty circles. He bludgeoned the Senate with loud arrogant words. He drove most of his colleagues from the Chamber in utter disgust. But almost single-handed...
...their employes longer than six hours per day, five days per week. Its sponsors declared it represented the crystallization of the best economic thought of the times to limit the hours of labor to spread unemployment. Its genesis was blamed on the conservative backwardness of U. S. industry to revamp itself to meet new conditions...
...long regarded as a true picture of Harvard life by everyone except Harvard students. Newspaper clippings record that at the first performance of this play in Boston, twenty years before, "The college showed very tangible disapproval." Vegetables were probably the order of the day. H. D. C. decided to revamp the production. Under satirical treatment, "Brown of Harvard" responded nobly. With due melodrama the hero thwarted those who would tread on his good name and arrived in the nick of time to lead his crew to victory over Oxford. Harvard cheered loud and lustily, and seemed fully to catch...