Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since President Roosevelt went into office he and his advisers have agreed that, for three good reasons, housing is a keystone to Recovery. These reasons were: 1) construction, as the balance wheel of industry, creates a market for thousands of types of manufactured goods; 2) a widespread public housing program, while more expensive than the dole, has the advantage of yielding in the form of public improvements some concrete return on the Government's money; 3) the poor of city and country have a real need for better housing...
...announcement of the withdrawal of Eliot House from the intra-mural football league, focusses attention on the general condition of house athletics. This year there has been widespread dissatisfaction with the management of football games...
...caused some big consumers (notably General Motors) to keep their aluminum consumption at an irreducible minimum. Mr. Bohn pointed out last week that if his new process breaks Aluminum Co.'s longstanding control of the raw metal, damage to that company will probably be offset by more widespread use of aluminum, since manufacturers will have the reassurance of two sources instead...
...because I feel that this view is so widespread that I humbly offer this book as an attempt to explain and justify the Roosevelt experiment, and to show how, if steadfastly pursued, it is bound to reach a successful conclusion...
After stating his disbelief in the widespread opinion that the President is unfriendly to profits, he emphasized that "the nation needs assurance on this point." Mr. Donham declared that planning is impossible in the midst of constant uncertainly as to government attitude and action, though "too frequently governmental managers must be incompetent to handle the problems they face...