Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Birkenhead: "In England during the War, when millions of men were drawn away from industry for military purposes vast numbers of women were called in to take their places...
...When I recall the claims made by feminists a few years ago of the vast access of strength and wisdom to the councils of nations which would follow the extension of the franchise to include women, I cannot but feel that there is reason for a certain disillusionment. . . . Women have not merely failed to demonstrate superior political aptitude to that of men, but at no time have they shown even the promise of ripe statesmanship. . . . The incursion of women into industry and politics has failed, is failing, and must of necessity fail...
...Roller skating is encouraged in the stock rooms of large stores that occupy vast areas. Errand and stock boys and girls are equipped with skates, and besides getting around faster, think of the fun! Marshall Field in Chicago started this. In New York we hear it is done at Altman's and at Macy...
...imported $1,000,000,000. Each $1 of gold in a bank reserve means a potential $13 of credit. In four years, the U. S. in this way alone added $6,500,000,000 to its credit resources. It could finance a building boom, a Florida boom, vast instalment selling, new highways, new factories. It had enough credit to support a continuous bull market, with stocks soaring week by week. Through the twelve Federal Reserve banks, together with their member banks, it could lend money to brokers at 3½ or 4%, swelling the credit available for speculation. Money...
...loosely drawn that very few of Santo Domingo's inhabitants could boast unmixed blood. Added to Spanish, Creoles and blacks, were soon the French and English traders, and by the end of the 18th Century French control was so well in the ascendency that Haiti contributed vast wealth to the kingdom of France...