Then, widespread efforts at energy conservation were having an effect, and oil companies were intensifying their search for new oil fields.
As he warned back then: "Widespread provider failure...would be bad for jobseekers, expensive for the taxpayer and fatal for many subcontractors, especially not-for-profit providers".
Even then, widespread failure by drivers and passengers to make use of the belts led to developmental work on passive-restraint systems.
It might seem nervy of Hollywood to give an audience slogging through the Great Depression a story about rich people wondering how, why, or even whether they should work, but doubts about the culture of work were then widespread.
The Fed had been established in 1913 in large measure to end the then widespread practice of banks' charging a similar "interchange" fee for the use of paper checks.
The phrase "skirts-over-trousers" has the majority of us recoiling at memories of Nineties fashion criminality, thanks to a then widespread contagion of wide-leg trousers with a mini skirt stitched to the front.
In the late 19th century, a variety of groups in the United States began to advocate for the creation of new vocational-education programs in schools, reflecting the then widespread belief in the moral, educative, and practical value of work.
The first research at St John's was carried out in 1890 when the treatment for tuberculosis discovered by Robert Koch, who won the Nobel prize in 1905, was trialled in cases of Lupus vulgaris, the most common skin infection associated with the then widespread disease.
