Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons in the U. S. still out of jobs, more than half used to work in the capital goods industries (machinery, structural steel, lumber, ships, cement, locomotives, stone). PWA was to have provided relief for the heavy industries but it turned out to be too costly, too slow. NRA tended to decrease the demand for capital goods by raising prices and limiting production. The Securities Act discouraged industry from borrowing money to buy capital goods. With the construction of homes down to 10% of the pre-Depression average, President Roosevelt decided to rush a housing program into the economic breach...
...Desirable indications point to the fact that they are abandoning this attitude and trying to adopt a position of the minimum control consistent with the national welfare. It is a difficult position to define, but a justifiable one. Youth is important to their purpose and even though the colleges slow majorities for Roosevelt, it should only make them work harder on a program which will attract them. A strong opposition party which bases its fight on liberty, restricted with the minimum amount of security, is important for the country. The realization that the youth are dissatisfied with their program should...
...U.S.S.R. today is a bizzarre mosaic of the primitive and the new, done in starting colors. It is a land of the living and dying-those whom the revolution benefits or cannot kill and those whom it has deemed by exile or loss of privileges to slow death. There are the new workers on expansion projects who enjoy undreamed of prosperity, living in cabins, enjoying double food rations or even riding in automobiles and there are the ironically named "settler specialists" whose homes and property have been taken from them and who "specialize" in digging holes to live in. Despite...
With a dwindling of the driving storm which swept all of New England yesterday to a slight drizzle late in the afternoon, the Harvard and Yale crews again took to the water for long slow workout. In the morning only the Yale Freshman ventured forth for a short paddle...
...Slow Train Through Arkansas described the vicissitudes of a traveler who, clean-shaven at the beginning of an Arkansas train ride, had a full-grown beard at the trip's end. He explained he did not want to get off and walk because his family did not expect him until the train got in. Another traveler tried to commit suicide by lying on the tracks in front of the train, starved to death before the locomotive reached...