Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School Life (paid circulation 10,000-largest of any Government organ) describes for teachers the "Children's Code" (child labor ban), tells how school districts may apply for Public Works funds for building. School Life asks: "Can you name the ten new Federal agencies whose long names have shrunk to initial letters? Do you know the purpose of each of these ten weapons
...condition was Barclays. Its total resources of $1,971,900,000 topped Chase by $250,000,000. Chase would have lost its title before this had it not had the advantage of a depreciated pound between 1931 and last April, for Chase resources in the last three years have shrunk steadily from a high of $2,600,000,000 to $1,700,000,000. In Britain, where branch banking is almost the only banking, the "Big Five"- Midland, Lloyds, Barclays, National Provincial, Westminster-control 80% of the business. In May Midland led the London race with resources...
...common difficulties concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce: the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment...
...most people know have been merged into one vast monopoly with bonds guaranteed by the State, Il Duce has dynamically simplified the steel, iron, milling, textile, silk, rayon and other trades into a constellation of unified industries whose sun is the Dictator. With the Kingdom's foreign trade shrunk by Depression to approximately half its volume of three years ago, the State is able to present current statistics showing Italy's woolen and worsted mills running at from 65% to 91% of capacity, paper mills 88%, cotton mills 70%, rayon factories 65%, boot & shoe industry 60% and chemical...
...which show, for instance, that the government receives $500 every year from the average family, and that every household is responsible for a $1000 share of the government debt. On the basis of these and similar calculations, the League "counts it a grievance that the government activities have not shrunk with the declining business index." Yet the authors of the article in question show that by calculations from the same figures as those which the League used, the average family can be proved to receive $500 a year from the government, and to possess one $1000 government bond. In addition...