Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bucked the recession tide, the furniture industry did not. Furniture follows the general business cycle rather than the building cycle, and the automobile has long since displaced it as Public Want No. 2 (No. 1 is food & clothing). But even in 1938 manufacturers turned out nearly $400,000,000 worth of furniture, double their 1932 volume, and forecasters are cheerful about the industry's 1939 prospects. Grand Rapids is especially cheerful about Kentwood's prospects...
Under the influence of the drug "life seems worth living again. While there is a tremendous variability" in the effect of the drug, its most common effect is "a sense of well-being or a mild state of elation...
...worth our effort to keep democracy a while longer, because if the present economic system collapses, fascism may result, he said. He believes in an economic isolation within the frame-work of democracy, not by dividing what we have but by increasing production...
...ranks of the Jayvees and has seen plenty of service thus far. He is certain to see more too, for he and Tread Ruml are the first line guard replacements. Chet Legg, the diminutive but sharp-shooting forward, and Rick Rabenold are two other men who will prove their worth soon. Dick Sullivan won a starting forward berth for the first few games, but the work in practice which he missed while in Ohio competing for a Rhodes scholarship has pushed him back temporarily to the role of a substitute. Franny Simpson, another Sophomore to be retained on the Varsity...
Reinstated by the Exchange, Joseph Sisto next made news in the Seabury investigation of Jimmie Walker. It came out that in 1929 he had given Mayor Walker $26,000 worth of bonds-just after his firm had a hand in a $5,000,000 bond issue for a taxi concern and just before Mayor Walker created a Board of Taxicab Control...