Word: staggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invalidating of this resolution would create a privileged class which in power and immunity would be unparalleled in human history. ... It would be a catastrophe which would stagger the imagination. It would not be a case of back to the Constitution. It would be a case of back to chaos. ... I hope this court will lay down in unequivocal language that actions in the control of currencies which are open to other nations shall not be denied the U. S. . . . . In acting as it did the Congress acted for the benefit of the country as a whole...
...shall not go inside the church tonight. She must not see me stagger down the aisle...
Deepest gold mine in the world is the Robinson Deep in South Africa's Witwatersrand, whence comes more than half of present world gold production. The Robinson Deep has sunk an inclined 3-mile shaft to a vertical depth of 8,380 ft. At that depth miners sweat, stagger and topple in a temperature of 104°, a humidity of nearly 100. Working efficiency is less than 30%. With gold prices soaring and money to spend, the company asked Willis Haviland Carrier, Newark engineer, to plan the world's biggest air-conditioning plant. Last week, with plans drawn...
Strategy. The President had a choice of two astute alternatives when he came to make up his budget: to balance the budget (which was possible if he denied himself "unforeseen" expenditures for fiscal 1935) or to unbalance the budget in a big way, to stagger the country with a deficit beyond all expectations. Few political quidnuncs failed to agree that he had chosen the more astute choice. Their varying reasons : 1) By telling the worst and putting the worst possible complexion on it he destroyed fears born of uncertainty, hastened the financial community's acceptance of the facts...
...revealing deficits which could not fail to stagger the public he bettered his bargaining power with Congress. Congress was set to demand large expenditures. Now at least a part of the public will press Congress to keep expenditures down...