Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johnstown, Pa. was the week's new and major trouble focus. Events here loomed large because they brought into the Steel struggle another big company, another type of local reaction to the national unrest, another glimpse of John L. Lewis' juggernaut intentions and power, and another Governor capable of positive action...
Under the press of Depression, the Installment Plan was asked to move a type of merchandise which could not be repossessed or was worn out before it was paid for. Among credit men this merchandise has the name "soft goods." Department store installments may cover anything from tires to toilet articles. Oddest use of installment selling is for services, ranging from steamship passage to permanent waves...
...they and the affected businessmen will resent interference. Many soothsayers will arise to lull any fears. It will be pointed out that an overexpansion of credit cannot be near at hand because brokers' loans are low and security credit under strict control. (This will be the same type of argument as the 1929 one that inventories were not over-extended and therefore no great danger existed.) It will be pointed out with great pride how well installment selling fared in the recent Depression. This will probably be one of the greatest arguments against restrictions. . . . All those interested in being...
More than two hundred photographs by Miss Esther Born, illustrating contemporary Mexican architecture, will be on exhibit in Hunt Hall Daily until June 27 from 9 o'clock to 5. These views made for the Architectural Record, include examples of nearly every important type of secular building, from the simplest workers' house and private dwellings to large office buildings, hospitals, markets, warehouses, schools, factories, airports, and monuments...
...familiar with the "glided dogman" which passes as counterfeit coin for real aesthetic criticism. We can readily identify the same type of spurious currency stamped with social and political symbols rapidly passed about from hand to hand by the inhabitants of each conforming world. But if we are to reject this false metal we must be prepared each one of us to mint our own--we must be prepared to make our own judgments of the most intricate and complex situations. To do this with any degree of success requires, indeed, "a rich background and a disciplined insight...