Word: depressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needs to be stressed, however, that a social security program does not make it more difficult to insure an expanding economy at high levels of income and employment. It is not true that social welfare expenditures constitute a drain on national income and tend to depress the economy...
...Some observers," reported the Charlotte Observer, "inclined to the opinion that the delayed-baggage incident served to inspire, rather than depress, them." All agreed that Conductor Rodzinski had more than measured up to the emergency. Happily - for it was no dream - he had discovered in time the absence of a couple of influential trouser buttons...
...Boeing's women employes is Mrs. Sophus Keith Winther, wife of an English professor at the University of Washington. Mrs. Winther worked one 45-day stretch on the assembly line (eight hours a day) without noticeable fatigue. War defeats do not depress her; they make her work harder...
...House, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison accused London's rambunctious Mirror of publishing "scurrilous misrepresentations, distorted and exaggerated statements and irresponsible generalizations . . . tending to undermine the Army and depress the whole population. . . ." Hitherto Britain's censorship has been confined to the suppression of information that might be of value to the enemy. But there is a section of the Defense Regulations (passed in the summer of 1940, when Britain was in imminent danger of invasion) permitting the Government to suppress a paper that undermines the war effort. The Home Secretary talked of suppressing the Mirror...
...British Army had done since Major General Sir Charles Townshend capitulated at Kut-el-Amara in Mesopotamia in 1916, and, before that, since Cornwallis gave up at Yorktown in 1781. He had a matter of minutes in which to decide whether to shake Winston Churchill's Cabinet, to depress all of Britain, to undermine the Allies' faith in British fighting...