Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called barometers of business do not register every day. Last week four of them, including several of the most important, made their mid-summer reports, caused businessmen 1) to smile. 2) to nod their heads sagely, 3; to raise their eyebrows in mild surprise, 4) to scratch their heads in serious thought...
Report that caused the smile was an official calculation that in July pollution of Manhattan atmosphere was 1.59 tons per cubic mile, compared to 1.21 tons in July 1932, 1.38 tons in July 1931, 3.82 tons in July 1930. Many a shrewd commuter has privately maintained that he got his best check on current business conditions by counting smoking v. smokeless factory chimneys from his train window...
...allegiance to the Administration. Carefully he explained the whys & wherefores of the Conference collapse. Britain had been a disappointment. The foreign Press behaved outrageously. Europe wanted the best of every bargain. The President was most sympathetic, expressed complete confidence in his foreign minister, sent him away with a smile to prepare for another conference, that of the Pan-American Union in Montevideo in September...
Neville Chamberlain, the stooped, hawk-nosed and usually dour Chancellor of the British Exchequer, eased tension by declaring with a smile, "Let us not blame anybody. Let us say that circumstances beyond our control wrecked things." Mr. Chamberlain then warned that Great Britain, until last year a so-called "free trade" country, is still in the stage of "constructing tariff walls," ready to take swift reprisal against states which raise theirs higher against British goods...
...Summer he is sad, for what once was may never be again, and he can only smile whimsically when there is scurrying along the bank as the police launch passes...