Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bonneville facilities finally became known. It was Yes. During April, Bonneville's fish census-takers grew increasingly nervous. Only a small number of salmon went by each day. Last week the fishways looked like a subway in a rush hour. This year's run was smaller than usual but an average of 1,600 salmon a day were using the ladders and there was no indication that fish had difficulty finding their way. Since the number of salmon who used to go up the river to spawn had never been counted, the census figures did not provide accurate...
...usual, the Department of Commerce last week began an investigation of the crash, but its findings could not be made known for weeks. Less stately was the pace of the coroner of Los Angeles County-where two other major plane crashes have occurred in the Saugus-New-hall Hill area. Said he: "The crash was accidental and due to faulty judgment on the part of both pilot and co-pilot...
...Madam Secretary estimated that since fall, 3,000,000 U. S. workers have been laid off. Those who still have jobs are getting lighter pay envelopes than a year ago, although most hourly rates are unchanged since against union resistance it is easier to cut hours than rates. As usual in depressions, payrolls have dropped faster than jobs. In a year, the Labor Department's index of factory employment has gone down 22%, payrolls 33%. Both have moved faster in the Roosevelt Depression than in the first year of Hoover's: from October 1929 to October 1930 factory...
...appears that at 43, a successful novelist, War hero and practicing physician, Céline suddenly felt a great liking for dancing girls. To get acquainted with these attractive creatures he composed a ballet, filled with dancing shepherds, pure emotions, sweetness & light, and consequently much different from his usual pessimistic and obscene prose. It was rejected. Jewish musicians, actors and production managers, he decided, wanted the girls themselves. For the next 337 pages of Trifles for a Massacre he pours forth his wrath in a prose style of the highest order, bold and original imagery, and Rabelaisian curses...
Tonight Freshmen will dance to the music of Art Shaw and Claude Hopkins in a Union transformed by a lower colling and spotlights. Tomorrow the Union, back in its usual guise will be open to ladies, and Jubilee night at the Pops will climax the week...