Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...road roller, skyscrapers, an airplane in flight. He licked his first ice cream cone, drank his first bottle of ginger ale. His only question: "Aren't there any more horses?" So violently did new sights and sounds impinge upon his prison-warped senses that he was left almost speechless...
...wage cut became effective last week. They are craftsfolk. Out of the question to replace them with scab labor not skilled to spin and weave! The cotton strike, colossal in magnitude, damaging to a dozen allied British trades, world-wide in repercussions, was, at its focus in Lancashire, almost terrifyingly simple: a stark, stubborn battle of wills between a Labor Monopoly and a Capital Monopoly...
...Cotton Weather." Why is British cotton fabricating confined almost exclusively to Lancashire, thus creating even a regional monopoly, putting all Britannia's cotton eggs dangerously in one basket...
Howard University was founded at Washington, D. C. in 1867 by General Oliver Otis Howard who commanded the Union Army in that neighborhood. The medical school, established soon thereafter, includes white and colored students. For almost 50 years the school had little money. Teachers received little pay. Then the Rockefeller General Education Board gave it $250,000, individual whites about $80,000 and Negroes a little more than $170,000. President of Howard is Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Negro...
With the seventh month of 1929 ending, U. S. corporation reports for the first six months last week came flocking in. The normal report showed an increase over the first six months of 1928. Steel was the banner industry, with almost every company reporting a peacetime record. Strong also were the utilities. Coal, leather, shoes, machinery and various other of the unspectacular necessities of life were weak. Among many corporations reporting their earnings, the following were of particular interest or importance...