Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject of "The State and the Entrepreneur." Professor Copland spoke from wide experience, for he was one of a group of economists who were instrumental in bringing about a "State-engineered" recovery from the depression in Australia, and well knows the relations between the government and private enterprise. In spite of the fact that the state is often a "bad loser and a poor employer" when it undertakes the functions of the entrepreneur in industrial projects, he advocates an increase in the amount of control exercised by the state, but with still enough leeway left to private employers to exercise...
Receipts for fiscal 1937, the President reported last week, would be an estimated $5,665,839,000-$12,000,000 over his previous estimate-in spite of a $668,000,000 loss of AAA and Bituminous Coal Conservation Act taxes and a deferment of certain Social Security Act collections. These losses would be more than offset by $410,000,000 in additional funds from the Revenue Act of 1936; $33,000,000 in delayed collections on the Railroad Retirement Act; and a jump of $237,000,000 in general revenues because of better business...
...spite of a constant blare of publicity, sudden bursts of law-enforcement, there were more U. S. highway deaths in May, June and July 1936, than in the same months...
Closer to home were graver distractions. Butter prices were skyhigh. New Yorkers at Buffalo, where butter was selling at 37? per Ib., were crossing to Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have...
Tangora thought of his wife who was wringing her hands at the ringside, thought of his four months' training (golf, athlete's diet, and three hours daily at the key board), thought of the $100,000 insurance on his fingers, which were getting slippery in spite of the special preparation of talcum and alum with which they were coated, thought of the $10,000 that Royal would pay him for exhibitions if he won. He sprinted desperately...