Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World-wide was last week's interest in the Depression's wage scale. At Rome, Prime Minister Mussolini, boastful of how all Europe had followed his policy of scaling wages down to meet retail prices, announced that, for Italy, a limit for such cuts had been reached "beyond which the antidote may become a poison" (see p. 19). In London, figures were collected which revealed that 1,500,000 British workers, including some of the most militant unions, had last month accepted deep pay cuts with quiet resignation. And in Washington, despite ominous news from his Department...
...bore can wear out the Castle patience. His social circuit about Washington is wide and continuous. At his S Street house near the Woodrow Wilson residence he provides frequent and elaborate hospitality. (The Castle family, with its Hawaiian holdings in banks and public utilities, is wealthy.) Late in the afternoon he can generally be found swimming in the Racquet Club pool...
...policeman in the street was directing traffic eight lines wide. On the corner loitered a small-town policeman out of work, and a medicine show barker. A man who had worked his way through Northwestern University and was now driving a taxi, waited for a fare. A shipping clerk waited for a bus. Among the thousands thronging by were a housewife, a sporty realtor and his friend, a petty municipal official. In a luggage store across the street a hotel clerk asked a salesman to show him the men's room...
...cigaret consumption. Proud are U. S. cigaret-makers of last year's 120,000,000,000 production record. And also satisfied with the record is a potent French industry, the industry which turns out little strips of cigaret paper three inches long and one and one-half inches wide. For all U. S. cigarets are wrapped in paper imported from France...
...temporarily at least with the signing of the Kellogg Pact. Since political machinery for assuring peace will run only in low gear, new plans for preventing war have a special interest. Such a plan has been put forward by the "Youth's Peace Federation" which hopes to organize nation-wide resistance to military service...