Word: widespread
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Herbert Hoover was still in office but while New Deal measures were beginning to be discussed, George Sloan issued a statement opposing such a cotton processing tax as AAA later imposed. He declared : "The extensive price increases necessitated by the tax will decrease the consumption of cotton and cause widespread displacement of workers in the cotton textile industry." By autumn the price of cotton had jumped from 6˘ to 92 ˝ç per Ib. and on top of that was a 4.2˘ processing tax. Labor was costing the industry 69% more per hour. The price of cotton print goods...
...principle of the Guide itself needs little justification at this late date. When first published in the regular columns of the CRIMSON in 1925, it caused widespread favorable comment, both in the daily press and in publications of other colleges. Prior to its appearance, the student's sources of information concerning his prospective courses were limited and haphazard. There was the bloodless and formal description in the catalogue which described the course but which in the nature of things could tell nothing of its practical soundness, of its enjoyability, or of the comparative capability of the instructor. And there...
...grandsons have prospered mightily. No aspiring Paris dressmaker ever forgets the fact that Gabrielle Chanel, the country girl from Auvergne, was said to be worth $15,000,000 as late as 1932 and is considered one of France's richest woman. Even 35 years ago openings attended by such widespread public interest as those of last week were unheard of. Before the War the couturiers of Paris were a small, select group catering to the queens and grandes dames of Europe. Even these moneyed customers consulted a couturier only when they wanted dresses for particularly grand occasions and were willing...
...last week the idea had become so widespread among hard-hit farmers that God was afflicting them with the drought for a purpose that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was moved to speak out: "Yes, the drought is serious. But there is one angle which has a touch of the grotesque. That is the attempt to persuade farmers that the Lord is punishing them for reducing acreage...
...National Recognition Day for Sunday School Teachers. No reform, no new organization, no salaried jobs, no appeal for funds was involved. "It is just a generous gesture of 'Thank You' to a great company of noble men and women. ... If successful, it should be the most widespread and impressive religious demonstration ever witnessed in the land...