Word: rife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed of such minor speculative importance. Presently producers began protesting about fluctuations of wool prices and the Senate appointed a Wool Investigating Committee. Matters came to a head last December when wool dealers in Boston demanded the closing of the New York wool futures market, claiming that speculation was rife (TIME, Dec. 6). Finding that wool trading was similar to trading in other commodity futures, the Senate decided to put wool markets also under the eye of the Commodity Exchange Administration and last week President Roosevelt's signature made the bill...
...have strong views, too! Of late the conviction has grown steadily on me that there has been too keen a desire on our part to make terms with others-rather than for others to make terms with us. . . . Propaganda against this country by the Italian Government is rife throughout the world. I myself pledged this House not to open conversations with Italy until hostile propaganda ceased...
...some time there has been considerable speculation in regard to this so-called Lexicon contest Lampoon's funnymen are staging with Wellesley, and last night rumor was rife about a tie-up between humor and big business at the Mount Auburn Street institution...
...hard-pressed dealers in Boston and Providence last week suddenly came out flat-footed against the wool tops futures exchange. Not only did they yammer about the 10? price differential between wool tops futures and raw wool, but they claimed that wool tops margins are too low, speculation too rife. The Providence Journal announced that a group of dealers this week will ask the Senate Wool Investigating Committee to suspend trading in wool tops futures. While other wool factions called this "ridiculous," Senator Alva Blanchard Adams of Colorado, chairman of the committee, which was appointed in 1935 to look into...
...makers of boyish fun dissent from such public discipline, let them reflect for a moment upon their own private situation. University students today live in a time of serious economic unrest, not to say social crisis. Lawless action has been rife in many an industrial quarter. There exists a threat, both overt and implied, to the whole American order of education, technology, law, business and industry, in which the youth of America's colleges hope to take future places of leadership, or at least of steady and gainful employment...