Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reduction of the wheat acreage (favored by Secretary Wallace). This is being brought about naturally by farmers who abandon their land on account of low prices. It may be brought about deliberately by diversification of crops and greater plantings of flax and sugar-beets?products which we now import. But, if it is necessary to increase the tariff on sugar to foster beet culture, there will be strong political opposition...
...position to criticise the scholar who finds satisfaction in being in Group I for the mere pleasure of leading. The trouble is that these two individuals with their differing points of view are subjected to the same mechanical system and to adapt themselves to this system they must abandon their individualism...
...Minister to Washington, speaking at the Institute of Politics, Williamstown, said that China had followed recent events in Turkey with great interest. Apparently, as a corollary, China will demand from the Powers a statement of conditions on which the Powers would be prepared to grant her complete independence and abandon the principle of extraterritoriality...
...ptomaine poisoning, which had compelled him suddenly to abandon his tour, was followed by a slight attack of pneumonia. For a day or two it did not seem as if he were throwing off the poison. Then gradual improvement followed. His temperature abated, his pulse approached normal. The bulletins of physicians in attendance had at first pronounced his condition " serious." Succeeding bulletins gave more and more encouragement to the hope that he would recover. Public apprehension was allayed...
...increase the liquid value of his holdings, Stinnes, in conjunction with the other industrials, compelled the Reichsbank to abandon its attempt to stabilize the mark by "official" quotations. The dollar started its climb from the official 283,000 marks "to a probable 1,000,000 by the end of the month." This process will enable Stinnes to pay practically nothing for his recently acquired properties and thus releases his resources for his next step. His income is not affected by this depreciation, for he regulates prices strictly on the basis of dollar exchange values, putting the capital thus obtained into...