Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campus of Fordham University. In its most populous stretch, between Claremont and Tremont, it is a cheerful, neighborly street, where on the summer evenings Jewish housewives lean from their windows or sit in chairs drawn out on the sidewalks, where kids on roller skates coast down the slight slope and where the tumult of a thousand conversations, of hundreds of mothers calling their children, is an antiphony to the sound of passing motors...
...products; 3) price rigidity in farm equipment during Depression; 4) swift rebound of farm-equipment prices after the Depression years to levels higher than 1929; 5) International Harvester's greater profits in 1937 ,than in 1929 though farm income in 1937 was 18% lower than 1929; 6) only slight decline in International Harvester's prices during Depression but sharp declines in production and employment as contrasted with competitive industries; 7) exchange of price lists among companies; 8) evidence of dealer coercion...
...Interstate Commerce Commission reversed itself in keeping with the Government's broad policy of being as lenient as possible with the hard-pressed roads. But the new fares mean only an estimated rise of $32,000,000 in yearly income for the roads involved, only a slight aid since the Eastern roads are losing about $13,000,000 a month...
...Anglo-Italian relations over the war in Spain last week took a slight turn for the better (see above), so did financial relations between Britain and Germany. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon was able to inform the House of Commons that an Anglo-German agreement had been reached providing for continuance of the debt service on Austrian loans, repudiated by the Reich after Anschluss...
These accusations, foreign observers thought, were absurd. For the Chinese to check the Japanese advance at possible sacrifice of half a million lives would be a monstrous pyrrhic victory. Besides, dike-cutting is the blackest of Chinese crimes, and the Chinese Army would hardly risk universal censure for slight tactical gains. But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng...