Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared: "They both ran away as hard as they could from their obligations, but our Prime Minister, in spite of his more advanced years, kept well ahead. What a magnificent old sprinter he is!" Conservative Party whips got busy and the "no confidence" motion was beaten off by the usual 340-to-143 vote...
...said Harry Hopkins one day last week after a Cabinet meeting which, though no member, he had attended as usual by Presidential request. When Reorganization failed last spring with it died Harry Hopkins' dream of becoming the first Secretary of Welfare. Now, for weeks, Washington wiseacres had been saying Secretary Roper of Commerce would be let out to make room for Friend Hopkins, with twofold purpose: to take him out of the Congressional barrage soon to fall upon his WPA; to throw him into contact with businessmen and build him up as 1940 Presidential timber...
...Sloan Jr. of General Motors Corp. told a Senate committee that "America's production plant is obsolete," that industry should be stimulated to substitute new machines for old, thus increase production and lower prices (TIME, Dec. 19). But outright expansion, rather than improvement, is industry's usual objective. When consumer demand rises, new plants are built to increase production; then recession nips demand and the new plants are not needed. In the case of the Irvin Works, Big Steel was operating at around 90% of capacity when it broke ground in May 1937; last week steel production...
...treated her interrogator to a laugh as refreshing as her looks when he asked the usual question: "Like Harvard men? Why I love them ! and she leaned over and kissed one on the spot--and ran behind her interference through the crowd...
...usual the Christmas dance will be preceded by a House play this year written by Robert W. Anderson '39, Tickets will be $2 a couple and $1.50 stag...