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Re:Visualizing language usage in New York Times news coverage by BTurkE on Saturday July 26, 2014 @11:45AM (#8089951)
An interesting one: try "code". There's an odd spike in 1934
Re:Visualizing language usage in New York Times news coverage by FatalLogic on Saturday July 26, 2014 @11:58AM (#8089984)
It's very likely to be related to the National Recovery Administration, which was formed in 1933, and set price codes and codes of fair practice. It must have generated a huge amount of public debate and lots of news stories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recovery_Administratio...