Word: thrifting
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...whole field of steel antagonism toward the New Deal. He lashed out at the Banking Bill, the Public Utility Bill, the Social Security Bill, the Guffey Coal Bill, the 30-hour-week Bill. "It is about time we had a little old-fashioned economy, that we encouraged efficiency and thrift," cried the steelmaster who received a $1,600,000 bonus...
...Hauptmann's thrift and small winnings in the stockmarket enabled him to live with comparative ease. His wife Anna was occasionally employed after March...
...persons believe, be highly desirable; but to bring this about by indirection and more or less unintentionally as a result of panic-stricken effort to mitigate through injudicious taxation the effects of a transient economic crisis, or as the result of a merely emotional assault upon the results of thrift and industry, would be a sorry product of our democratic society and one ruinous to some of the highest values which have been built up in our century and a half of national life...
...defense would be to prove that the surpluses were accumulated to meet the reasonable future needs of the defendant corporations. Though there was much talk to the effect that this Treasury tax drive on surpluses was just one more manifestation of the New Deal's hostility toward corporate thrift, the prediction was freely made in Washington that many a corporation would, in self-defense, declare extra dividends out of overdeveloped surpluses before Congress meets in January to write...
...Furthermore, Sweden's unfavorable balance of trade dwindled from 203,000,000 kronor ($52,780,000 Roosevelt) in 1932 to only 11,800,000 in 1933. But for Sweden's upturn they had many other reasons: the great public works program begun in 1933; the thrift and conservatism of Swedes; the exemplary caution of Swedish savings banks; the huge cooperative union controlling nearly one-half of Sweden's trade in food and clothing; and Government ownership of the Swedish railways, telegraph and most of the telephone system, one-third of the mines and 80% of household electricity...