Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less a voice than that of Bernard Mannes Baruch was raised last week against the practice of supporting unsound railroad investments. Testifying before the Senate Munitions Committee (see p. 13), he remarked that railroad rates in case of war should be fixed solely on the basis of "service and efficiency...
...firmly grounded in its extensive sugar fields, and their relation to the United States. It is a familiar, unsavory story of a small group, in this case beet sugar growers in the South, obtaining a high protective tariff on Cuban sugar, despite the fact that it is economically unsound. The result of setting up such lofty tariff walls in the past few decades has been a paralysis of Cuba's mainspring of economic life, the sugar industry...
...only reason for the appointment was that the barber had just become a father. It strikes us that, while a good barber might make a very good Colonel, the theory that such a common experience as paternity fits a man for service as a Colonel is rather grotesquely unsound. In this appointment Mr. Lafoon apparently stumbled over both feet. But on his apologetic announcement of "no more barbers" he has in our opinion stuck one foot in his mouth...
...would not have the members of your committee for a moment to think that this protest is motivated by a spirit of retaliation, that I am unduly peeved and aggrieved at an injustice or an affront done me personally. To make objection to confirmation upon that unsound basis would be unworthy of a United States Senator...
...There is a school-I had, inaccurately, almost said 'of thought,'-in NRA that has prevailed since I left it which insists that any provision against predatory price slashing is 'economically unsound' and 'unenforceable and 'rendered unnecessary by the wage-fixing rules.' I fear that they have prevailed and that new NRA legislation proposed by the Administration will follow this so-called view. It is a ghastly paradox and I will fight it with all that I have to give. Here we have self-styled reformers echoing the shibboleth of some...