Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rains failed to shake the steady progress of the work, as 85 laborers toiled constantly to keep the work on schedule. At one time, heavy rains and sub-surface water necessitated working in water until the foundation, sinking 22 feet below the surface, was laid. Since that time, no serious obstacles have arisen to impede the work, and the Center will be finished on time, according to construction managers, on or about December...
...John L. Lewis this was all a very serious matter, for U. A. W. has every sign of being C. I. O.'s soundest long-term asset. Unlike mining, steel, oil, textiles, the motor industry has still a big enough margin of profit to make auto unions as well as auto manufacturers economically powerful. If U. A. W. can expand into aviation, glass, rubber, as John Lewis hopes, it will add still further to its power. Given leadership, U. A. W. might gain a dominance like that of the railroad brotherhoods in Labor's last generation...
...responsibility for financial obligations incurred today. Nor is there much immediate prospect of skyrocketing assessed valuations to make tax levies appear smaller and debt burdens less onerous. . . . Very few municipalities with overall, net, tax-supported debts in excess of 15% of full taxable value escaped more or less serious default in the depression period. Very few whose overall debts fell below 10% became conspicuously involved in default...
Nudism, as an organized movement, started in Germany in the early 20s, went ahead by serious leaps and dignified bounds until 1933, when the German body put on a brown shirt. From Germany the cult spread to France, England and the U. S., where it was popularly regarded as high-class burlesque. By 1934, however, there were 300,000 serious-minded nudists in the U. S., and the movement gathered momentum until the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego three years ago, where 2,000,000 sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral...
Commentators generally passed this off as a "technical correction," Wall Street's way of saying that prices which had gone ahead faster than Recovery were dropping back to fall in line with the industrial trend. Meanwhile, business indices indicated no serious relapse into Depression. Steel production last week was still about 40% of capacity; carloadings were down 8% from the previous week; automobile output at 13,790 units was the year's lowest. Counterbalancing such statistics, power production climbed to the highest point since January, bank debits rose 10%. Detroit wires hummed with thousands of telegrams ordering laid...