Word: statisticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The new planes (model 307) will look like the 299, weigh 21 tons, carry 32 or sleep 18 passengers, speed at about 250 m.p.h. with 75% of the power of four Wright "Cyclones." As mail or experimental planes, they will have a range of 4,000 miles. Cost: $300,000...
The classic Depression statistic is preserved by the railroad equipment industry; in 1932 not one U. S. railroad ordered a single steam locomotive from any of the big three U. S. builders. Most of the equipment companies were well-heeled, and most of them, Baldwin included, had already started keeping...
An old and familiar complaint against the New Deal is that it has virtually wrecked the Civil Service system by loading deserving Democrats into all sorts of good jobs. A prime statistic: in three years Roosevelt, Farley & Co. have made 150,000 straight political appointments, have reduced Federal employment under...
The same forces that brought on the last three great booms are at work today, and they are the same forces that are making for the much-publicized, longpredicted building boom. At the bottom of all this boom talk is the prospect of a U. S. housing shortage. Business recovery...