Word: trend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trend of affairs appears to demand occasional new coinage to facilitate coherent verbal exchange of ideas...
...volume of credit issued to business has fallen (with occasional minor reversals) some $20,000,000 a week in New York City, another $20,000,000 in the rest of the U. S. Last week, however, Federal Reserve summaries for reporting banks in 101 cities showed the trend had been reversed for three consecutive weeks of August: loans rose $30,000,000 in New York City, $11,000,000 outside. Though there is always a seasonal expansion in August and though there was a slump in the week before Labor Day, Reserve officials asserted that the figures indicated the beginning...
Since the signing of a reciprocal trade treaty in 1935 trade between the U. S. and The Netherlands has grown enormously. In 1936 Holland (including colonies) imported from the U. S. goods worth $81,758,000, exported to the U. S. goods worth $136,381,000; last year the trend was reversed, imports amounting to $154,028,000 and exports...
Boss Farley said: 1) That rural lif must be made attractive; the farm-to-city trend is a national menace. And 2) "There is no more attractive ornament to a country home than an artistic, well-preserved mail receptacle...
Last week figures from abroad indicated a slight leveling off in business, but London's famed financial sheet,The Economist, remarked: "We cannot conclude that the downward trend in British business has been reversed. . . . In France, where for some months rising wholesale prices have paradoxically countered falling industrial production, a slight improvement has set in. . . . Only in Scandinavia is business maintained at a high level, but even there certain signs of a recession in investment activity have appeared. The recession has gathered way in the Low Countries; and the Far East must still be counted out of the commercial...