Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no use kidding ourselves. We have got to face this problem and we have got to face it together. ... It is not just Youth. To be sure it matters more to Youth. Youth wants to begin living, it is vital for them. But we have all got to face it and face it together. . . . This goes down to the roots of whether civilization goes on or civilization dies, as many civilizations have died in the past. It is nothing new for a civilization to come to the end. We have seen it happen over and over again...
...renewed by his remarks about "no new taxes," on the train south last fortnight (TIME, Feb. 27). Last week the build-up was intensified by Secretary Morgenthau, who proposed not only to avoid new taxes but to mitigate those which give businessmen a "what's-the-use" attitude. The Administration's tax man in the House, Chairman Bob Doughton of Ways & Means, echoed Mr. Morgenthau. At a meeting of Senate committee heads, Chairman Pat Harrison of Finance, arch foe of the Administration's social-control tax theories, was permitted to cry a truce on all legislation unsettling...
...peroration, Recovery's apostle added Housing and Railroads to Utilities as fields in which the use of capital goods can be expanded now that the era of Reform is past...
Less reserved or more inquisitive, CBS, whose supplementary survey used the same interviewers, quizzed 10,273 of the same people, last week let go all answers it could get. These would have CBS customers believe that fully four-fifths of all rural homes use packaged soap, cereal, coffee, cleanser; 92% use toothpaste or powder, 77% wrapped bread; that 89% of rural women use face powder, 66% lipstick or rouge. Least used were canned soup (49%), canned tomato or fruit juice (46%), condensed milk (37%). For CBS, the interviewers found out that 80.9% of the families questioned listened...
Celotex came back fast. This time President Dahlberg's Napoleonic ambitions were put to more constructive use-diversifying Celotex's products to give it a general line of building materials. It made $736,000 in 1936, $1,267,000 in 1937. This is still cottage size next to the manorial 1937 profits of its two biggest competitors, Johns-Manville Corp ($5,450,000) and U. S. Gypsum...