Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commenting, Le Temps accepted with satisfaction the theory that U. S. overproduction is the cause of world depression, but doubted that U. S. citizens "work for work's sake," pointing out that U. S. labor unions work tirelessly for shorter hours. What, then, supplies the U. S. urge to work? "In the last analysis," observed Le Temps, "the American overworks to overproduce and thereby overenrich himself. The super-assiduity of Homo Americanus springs from his lust for Power...
Feed. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde last week reviewed this problem: "The feed shortage is developing into a national rather than a local problem. The situation has become more critical in the areas first affected and new areas to the north have suffered. . . . The feed supply is now shorter than in any year since...
...Although shorter than the Graf, the R-100 has greater volume. Dimensions of both, compared to the U. S. Navy's ZRS-4 and ZRS-5 now being built by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. at Akron, Ohio: R-100 Graf ZRSs...
...wave that is going on all over the world. ... I know at least two Parliamentary candidates who have actually been approached with offers of money from the liquor interests. In 1919 my wife succeeded me in the House of Commons. She made her maiden speech in favor of keeping shorter the hours of the sale of drink. . . . The trade has tried continuously to get her out of public life...
...world flyers (TIME, Sept. 12, 1927). Stepping into a Wasp-powered Lockheed Vega at Jacksonville Beach, Fla. they set a new record of 31 hr. 58 min. elapsed time for round-trip flight across the U. S. Their route to and from San Diego. Calif, was 800 mi. shorter than that (Roosevelt Field, L. I. to Los Angeles) over which Capt. Frank M. Hawks made his record of 36 hr. 48 min. last year. But Flyers Brock & Schlee beat by many hours all previous records over their course...