Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Malnutrition and overcrowding have caused an appalling health situation. Whereas the general city death rate is less than 11 per 1,000, Harlem's is 18.15 and in its worst section ("the sore spot") the rate reaches 21. Tuberculosis causes 60 deaths out of every 1,000 in the city at large. Harlem's figure of 191 in 1929 has climbed to 250 since Depression...
...face of an indifferent world and of a hostile administration, and that the Jewish population has increased from about 50,000 in 1920 to about 350,000 in 1935. But with millions of Jews of Eastern and Central Europe facing economic starvation at best and physical extermination at worst, the progress achieved is only a slight beginning. Jews did and are doing all in their power to facilitate the gigantic task of finding a new home for millions, but this task can be only carried out if the British administration will cease obstructing Jewish efforts and will live...
...Chronicle newshawks scoured the bleak "sand hill" section between Wrens and Keysville-setting for Tobacco Road. True to promise, the Chronicle front-paged their findings in five straightforward reports which, in any Northern publication, might well have drawn the hot fire of Southern boosters. Dutifully the investigators described the worst cases they found...
...poured in from the South, from Europe, from the Orient. Near-panic spread to the New Orleans Cotton Market, to the Stock Exchange, to the grain market in Chicago. When the Cotton Exchange's big bronze bell closed trading at 3 o'clock, cotton had suffered its worst break since 1927, with a maximum drop of 1.85? per lb. ($9.25 per bale). Next day it opened around...
...Propaganda of the worst kind!" snapped House Minority Leader Snell...