Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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3) By reducing at one staggering stroke the earnings of 60% of the nation, Il Duce believes that he can force the sellers of manufactured goods and foodstuffs to cut their prices drastically, thus hammering down the cost of living to the lowered level of wages. Thus far, in the...
Obviously if the Original, the One & Only can batter down retail prices 15%, a postman whose wages have been cut 12% will be better off than before.
Early in the week a mill near Tokyo's railway station closed down because of the general business depression, threw hundreds of factory hands out of work. Kiyoshi Tanabe, a railway flagman employed at the plant, ate a large meal, drank quantities of water, then kilting his short cotton...
All one day and the next he sat there, with the banzais of the unemployed rising faintly to his ears. Police and factory owners paid little attention. From Yokohama came a message: Emperor Hirohito would return to Tokyo at the week's end, would almost certainly pass the Tanabe...
Police shouted threats through megaphones. Kiyoshi sat on his chimney. Friends attempted to hoist food to him by kites and the police cut the string. Kiyoshi sat on his chimney. Police threatened to light a fire under the chimney. Kiyoshi gritted his teeth and continued to sit on his chimney...