Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widespread was the opinion that the Roosevelt tax plan had been sent up largely as a "trial balloon" which the country's disapproval had promptly punctured. Another suspicion was that it had been started to create a popular backfire for a sales...
Three years ago the Lederle Laboratories began producing Laidlaw-Dunkin preparations in the U. S. Use and success have been widespread. Inoculating 163 purebred pups, Cornell's Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard found 92% immune on exposure to infection, 4% exhibiting only slight symptoms of the disease. Only three were severely affected by inoculation...
...gave rank to the eclipse of the sun, the death of Smith Reynolds. AP alone cited the Olympic Games, the trial and resignation of Manhattan's Mayor Walker. Besides the economic upheaval. UP alone chose War Debts, the decision of both major parties to resubmit Prohibition, the "revelation of widespread nepotism in government and reactions of people thereto...
...indispensable condition of a revival of general prosperity. . . . Reparations and war debts represent expenditure on destruction. Fertile fields were rendered barren and populous cities a shattered ruin. Like the shells on which they were largely spent these loans were blown to pieces. [Their] repayment necessitates unnatural transfers which provoke widespread economic evil...
...police line bottling up their followers. At the Capitol special guards were posted and even ordinary sightseers were turned away. Vice President Curtis consented to receive three demonstrators and their petitions-but no more. Most Senators and Representatives felt that they were fighting a foe as intangible as the widespread misery the Red marchers claimed to represent...