Word: fall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporations, which already pay a State levy and cannot be doubly taxed. A few unions squawked that employers would have to up wages 1½%. But the mass of citizens sleepily accepted the fact that somewhere, somehow, their town had to find $18,000,000 additional revenue or fall to pieces...
...this the U. S. Weather Bureau explained last week. The U. S. in 1939 had two "extended droughts," one in the spring and an even worse one in the fall. (A fairly rainy summer saved most 1939 crops.) Reported was "the driest fall of record," a severe case of spotted drought (see p. 39) affecting 97,000,000 U. S. acres...
...Most business and Government-guess-timators agree that in the first half, 1940 business will be down from fourth quarter 1939, but it appeared that one cushion which may pad the fall might be auto production. The fourth quarter of the calendar year is first quarter of the auto model year, a time when auto manufacturers justifiably overproduce in order to stock dealers. Overproduction of 200,000 cars would average less than five cars apiece for each of U. S.'s 41,698 dealers. Beginning of autumn, production ran at full blast. Last week it assembled 117,805 cars...
Fortnight ago Walla Wallans gave a party for Publisher Kelly, now president and chief stockholder. On a month's vacation last fall Mr. Kelly went East, called at the head offices of the big can companies, finally made a deal with Continental...
...Last fall doctors were startled to receive in the mail a slick new penny pamphlet called Gonorrhea the Crippler! garnished with diagrams and crammed with terse, practical advice. Other new pamphlets were Syphilis in Our Town, and Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread, Its Cure. Last week Dr. Parran proudly ushered forth the Service's most ambitious popular work: Communicable Diseases...