Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handouts. For "surplus" in Rochester means any & all brands of designated foods, stocked and sold by the grocer in the usual way, at prevailing prices, which the U. S. Government has to pay when it redeems blue stamps. If Milo Perkins' plan works well enough to be spread over the U. S., its advantages will be that it balances Relief diets, stimulates the food trade, moves more farm produce through ordinary channels than FSCC could move through its artificial drains...
...families stampeded in less than a year into collectives planned to absorb 4,000,000 in five years; uprisings spread in the villages, were ruthlessly suppressed; peasants, anticipating the loss of farm animals, slaughtered 25% of their cows, 33% of their sheep, 50% of their hogs...
Editor Ewald's crusade was good for his paper. The Press bought out the morning Register and Henry Ewald became editor of both papers. Last fall he went after the lottery racket, spread the front pages of the Register and the Press with pictures of lottery tickets that Mobile's police said they could not find...
...last October,-price cutting spread. Some steel prices dropped as much as $11 a ton or up to 20%. Characteristically, competing automen disputed Ford's claim for credit in securing the reduction. Meanwhile, large steel orders by the motormakers are probably two months off, for the auto companies have enough steel on hand to last until large scale production begins on 1940 models and want to be sure their big buying is done at the bottom, not on the way down. Aggressive National Steel Co., always up front among the price cutters, admitted that it didn't "know...
Slender Junior Bob Graves provided the finishing touches of Crimson to the sixth annual New England Intercollegiate golf tournament on the Oakley Country Club course late Saturday afternoon by posting a splendid 70-71--141 to spread-eagle a 32-man field and take the individual crown in a walk...