Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Industry. The Man of the Year launched a 1934 drive in behalf of half-dead heavy industry by setting up the National Housing Administration which by year-end had induced householders to spend $100,000,000 on home renovation. But the Federal Reserve's latest index of industrial production stood at 74%, almost the exact level of a year earlier, while NRA, without last year's Man of the Year Hugh S. Johnson, broke like a wave on the beach; its price-fixing efforts abandoned; its collective bargaining feature challenged in the courts; its funeral oration read...
...conveniently arranged. Soon most of the islands' 12,000,000 people began crying in their eight languages and 87 dialects that freedom would be immediately convenient. Year after year they voiced their polyglot appeal, gave their pompous little brown-skinned politicos hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend the winter comfortably in Washington agitating for freedom...
After a long line of super, magnificent, stupendous, song, dance and girl revues Hollywood has fallen to the production of a musical which is merely colossal. Hollywood must be an amusing place in which to spend a day or two but there cannot be many who would be able to stand "365 Nights in Hollywood." The songs are none too catchy, the story is unbelievably atrocious and Alice Faye who seems to be the raison d'etre of the opus would do much better in a cabaret where she would not be forced to dim her physical charms by unsuccessful...
Pricked up interest as oldster David Lloyd George announced that he means to stump the entire British Isles with an avowedly Rooseveltian campaign for a British New Deal based on nationalization of the Bank of England, economic planning and high-pressure spending on public works. Cried he: "I think President Roosevelt has given the world a very wise lead. The American New Deal has shown how essential it is to reconstruct completely to defeat depression in every phase of economic life." Ridiculing His Majesty's Government's intention to spend 2,000,000 pounds rehabilitating certain depressed areas (TIME...
...learned that the shrewd couturiers had insisted that no wardrobe such as hers could be maintained for less than $50,000 per year. Exclaimed she : "Absurd ! How perfectly silly! I never spent that much on clothes. Why, with all the entertaining and traveling I do, I don't spend more than $20,000 a year on clothes...