Word: trend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours with National Chairman Jim Farley, the Vice President spent three and one-half hours with the President, trying to tell him that the November election results were not (as a famed Janizariat chart purported to prove) a collection of local overturns, but first evidence of a popular trend to the Right, toward economy. Ray Tucker, oldtime Washington correspondent who enjoys Mr. Garner's confidence more than most men, reported that in this session the Vice President told the President to "decide whether you're gonna get on or get off," and, "For God's sake, Mister...
...accord U. S. investors the same treatment as Brazilian investors-an important concession because of the Vargas Government's current trend toward economic nationalism...
Aware that he must retire next August at 64, resigned to the airward trend now that Franklin Roosevelt has taken off with the airmen, Malin Craig silently acceded to last week's changes...
Last week at Santa Monica, Calif., Douglas Aircraft Co. test-flew a new ship, turned its back on the design trend which in the past five years has put low-wing monoplanes on every large domestic airline in the U. S. Not since the last famed Ford "tin goose" and Fokker tri-motor disappeared from service had a high-wing monoplane like Douglas' new DC-5, which carries 16 passengers and uses a retractable tricycle landing gear, been offered for transport service...
...business in roofing, wall board, paints, termite preventives, etc. etc. Its able President William Herman Lowe was astounded two years ago by the news that "Pabco" workers long used to high pay, sick benefits, annual vacations and the like, nevertheless wanted to join "outside" unions. Instead of fighting the trend, he forthwith dissolved Pabco's "company union," required his 1,500 employes in San Francisco and Oakland to join one of the 15 A. F. of L. and three C. I. O. unions now under contract. He also decided that Pabco had failed miserably to sell its policies, processes...