Word: upturns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policies and methods. What gives him courage and turns his face hopefully toward the future is the certain knowledge that better economic times will bring him better political times. Well within the realm of possibility ?in fact most Republicans count on it? is a mighty upturn toward prosperity which will blot out the President's misfortunes and missteps of 1930-31 and restore him, sobered from his bout with adversity, to the peaks of popularity in time for the 1932 election...
...business depression, and that national mileage has actually increased, as indicated by gasoline figures. This means, he says, that the motor car is definitely out of the luxury or pleasure transportation class and is a possession, which the American public will not sacrifice even under pressure. With an upturn in business conditions the normal amount of traffic will have added to it a large number of new purchasers, who have deferred purchase during the past year...
...many a city throughout the land to do something about Unemployment. During the summer, when men out of work were not perishing of hunger and cold, this major problem was largely allowed to coast along on the theory that autumn would bring economic improvements. When no business upturn appeared, widespread preparations were started to avert another winter of long breadlines...
...dark thought: Secretary Mellon apparently does not anticipate any such sudden upturn of U. S. business in the next six months as would reproduce the "tight money" situation and a marked increase in the rate of interest the Treasury must pay for cash...
...business slump, saw his forecasts go all awry. Even Secretary of Labor James John Davis, the most irrepressibly cheery prophet, has grown silent on the economic future. Democratic delay on the tariff bill was recurrently cited by Republicans as the reason for unsettled business. They prophesied a quick upturn as soon as that measure was out of the way. The new tariff became law June 17. But July, according fo figures given out by members of the Administration last week, failed to show any improvement...