Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arithmetic by the ton constituted the anesthetic "prologue" of the investigation. Dr. Isidor Lubin, the dark, bird-like Commissioner of Labor Statistics, presented a bale of charts to show the growth of U. S. population, industrial production (total and per capita), national income ($432 per capita in the U. S. for 1934-35), employment. Biggest headlines were accorded his estimate that between 1929 and now the country "lost 133 billion dollars of potential income," including 119 billions in workers' wages for 43 million man-years of work...
Whether it is performed by pacts or by a ring of Navy steel, what the U. S. hopes to accomplish at Lima is to show itself so Good a Neighbor that 120,000,000 Latin Americans will eschew the ideas and products of neighbors which the Good Neighbor wants to keep out. On the eve of this attempt, currents and undercurrents showed the progress of the neighborly race...
...depart ments and agencies had thought up $998,804 worth. Samples : Agriculture can spend $75,000 for a Tropical Forest Experiment Station in Puerto Rico; Treasury, $27,714 to send a Coast Guard patrol boat and one cutter on a demonstration cruise; Library of Congress, $27,200 to show Latin Ameri cans how to use and catalog their libraries, $10,000 to present their 20 Governments with photostats of "fundamental American documents"; Federal Communications Commission, advice on radio problems (free) ; National Emergency Council, two $45,000 propaganda films, one about Latin America for U. S. audiences, the other about...
Between these last lines can be read the most remarkable career of any young Britisher of present times. The long-sighted rulers of the Empire prefer that a man should show some spark of rebellion, and very definitely of idealism, early. No spark, no spunk. No Character. Eden has Idealism-and Character-and in 1935 he became at 38 the youngest British Foreign Secretary in living memory...
Naming Yale as "the best dressed girls' college in the country," but claiming that shoulderstrapless evening dresses were not designed for the modern automobile, Miss Dorothy Lord, internationally famous style expert, last night launched a move to glorify the 1939 Radcliffe girl, in a silkless style show...