Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ARCHITECTURAL FORUM for April brought discussion of low-cost houses down to brass tacks, the two sharpest being 1) that more than 70% of U. S. families now earn less than $2,000 a year, and 2) that the 35% with incomes between $1,000 and $2,000 in good times and bad make up a vast and virtually untapped market for building. For this 35%, houses must cost from $4,000 down. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM gave architects virtually the first survey of the problems of designing houses in this price range, which they have hitherto ignored...
...Discrimination in occupational advertisements is sharpest against Jewish salesmen, white-collar workers, women stenographers. To combat it, many Jewish girls have taken to wearing crosses "as a protective charm...
With that remark Mr. Morgenthau hit two nails upon the head: 1) The nervousness of people with money had just produced the sharpest break in the stock-market since last spring, commodity prices were fluttering, and throughout the nation businessmen were absorbed with one question-how would a major European war affect U. S. business? (Even if no war came at once, it was clear that the threat was likely to remain.) 2) How the U. S. was affected in 1914 is a matter of record. But since then there have been several enormous shifts in the status...
...Washington so forcefully that President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull agreed the moment had come for another warning to Herr Hitler. Accordingly, Mr. Hull took to the air with a speech, short-waved to Europe, in which he elaborated his thesis of international "order under law." His sharpest point: "In a smaller and smaller world it will soon no longer be possible for some nations to choose and follow the way of force and for other nations at the same time to choose and follow the way of reason. All will have to go in one direction...
...Minimum pay went up from $21 a month for unskilled labor in rural districts to $26. In four states- North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma-all classes of workers were boosted. In two States-Kentucky and Oklahoma- where Roosevelt Senators happen to be threatened in primary elections, the boosts were sharpest of all. No explanation was given except that "the President and Mr. Hopkins wanted it that...