Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt saw myriad ways in which the Supreme Court's decision was going to change the New Deal. Republicans asked: If Congress cannot delegate powers to the President without specifying just how they shall be used, how can it obey his request for $4,000,000,000 to spend as he likes for re-employment? (See col. 1.) And how will NRA codes, each "the law of the land," yet none made by Congress, stand quot; the test of the doctrine of "strictly limited" delegation of legislative authority? Senator King of Utah sounded the mildest note of "Beware!" when...
...products looks like a royal road to profits. A fixed price above cost has proved a lifesaver to more than one inefficient producer. Lazy producers have found that a fixed price, below which their smartest competitors cannot go, leaves them more time for golf than when they have to spend long hours at the office wracking their brains for ways to hold their markets. In fact, to most manufacturers guaranteed prices promise heaven on earth so long as the public does not find such prices a barrier to buying. Hence man by man, hour by hour, Business rose to argue...
Harlow had originally intended to spend four days in Cambridge, but a change in plans has cut his visit short. He will leave tonight and probably not return until soon before the opening of spring practice...
...m.p.h. Thirty minutes later The 400 pulls into Minneapolis, making a total run of 450 min. Winner of the Award for Safety among Class A Railroads for the past four years, North Western has no intention of sacrificing safety and comfort for speed, but it is willing to spend money. To operate The 400 costs 95? a mile compared with 75? for regular trains. To the public the fare is the same ($14.67 round-trip...
...different person from the aging man who has an earthy platitude for every interviewer. Ruralist and antiquarian though he has become, the Henry Ford who in 1934 laid out $20,000,000 for plant expansion when Big Business was shivering for reassurances or who boldly announced that he would spend nearly $500,000,000 for wages and materials in 1955, is the Henry Ford who motorized...