Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer President Hoover hoped the Depression would end before winter came and thus automatically relieve unemployment. When winter came he was roundly flayed for inaction. This summer the President has been informed by his experts that, even if good times should return with an unexpected rush before snow flies, next winter will bring far more hunger, cold and want among the jobless than last. Therefore last week President Hoover began to bestir himself to see what could be done before winter comes...
Explanation of the reversed whirlpool probably lies in the contour of the Banks. The ocean floor there is made up of gullies and balks, through and against which ocean currents rush...
...John D. Long and Clifford Rush Eskey of the Service have just wiped bubonic plague from Peru & Ecuador by killing 4,400,000 rats in two years...
...selling too low. Farmers can make more by feeding it to live stock. If they would hold back their wheat, it would tend to help prices." But farmers remembered that the Board had advised the same holding process last year and those who did not sell in the first rush lost progressively more and more thereafter...
...work. In time the new paper attained some 20,000 circulation (practically the saturation point for the State) mostly in Butte, where it gave Clark's Miner a sound thrashing. A special "paper train'' of Daly's own Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad would rush it there, hot off the press...