Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claiming that the New Deal's business policy was the cause of the present slump, the Boston College team asserted that it was fundamentally harmful to American business, that it fostered collectivism as opposed to free enterprise, and that it engendered class strife...
...Deal benefitted the American people as members of the economic system, that it remedied old conditions of abuse. In proving their stand that Roosevelt's program was beneficial, they pointed to the relatively prosperous years between 1933 and 1937 when the program was in effect. Moreover, the present slump would have been worse, they said, but for the remedial legislation advocated by the New Deal...
...Erickson, Eli guard, and John Herrick, Crimson center, tied for high scoring honors for the evening with 11 tallies. The return of Herrick to form after a slump of several weeks was one of the bright spots of the game for the Cantabs...
...American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. No mere plaint against labor was Dr. Moulton's argument. It was in fact but the converse of a familiar thesis, that higher wages and shorter hours are necessary to compensate for technological progress. The cause of 1937's slump, said Dr. Moulton, was that there had been not enough increase in productive efficiency to compensate for the raising of wages and the simultaneous lowering of working hours...
...introduced the Irish revolutionary movement without considering Karl Marx's letter of 1869 on the same subject; 2) had lured to the theatre crowds of Soviet youngsters numerous enough "to worry any pedagogue"; 3) that his inefficiency, maladministration and attempts to "out-Hollywood Hollywood" had caused a catastrophic slump in the Soviet film industry...