Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan would be attended with serious difficulties, even granted that donors left their legacies with no strings attached and that presidents and trustees were willing to use them for this purpose; yet such a proposal does much to emphasize the sorry scheme of modern education. There is every argument against permitting one of the most highly specialized and invaluable professions to remain the least remunerative, and a wretched least at that...
...Chicago. Two holdups, no less?two foul crimes had Dr. Straton witnessed on a sunny morning while riding through the streets of Chicago. This statement was too much for some of the citizens of that fantastic city who averred that Dr. Straton must have come upon a family argument, or mistaken the antics of some street ragamuffin for a crime. It was too much for the Chicago Evening Post, which promptly offered the Baptist preacherman $100 if he could definitely establish the date and location of the crimes he had observed. Replied Dr. Straton...
...main argument for the new gas locomotive is its saving in labor costs. On a daily mileage of 200 miles, all overhead costs on a steam train amount to from $1.20 to $1.50 per mile. Advocates of the gas locomotive claim that similar overhead costs on their new trains can be held down to 60? a mile. Thus, savings on a gasoline over a steam train would amount to $12,000 to $36,000 per year, depending on mileage...
...Wettling, Manager of the Statistical Bureau of the western railways, Charles Donnelly, President of the Northern Pacific, and many another. They came to present the railways' side of the case and were questioned by Mr. Aitchison, by shippers and others opposed to the rate increase. The argument of the railroad men was typified by a comparison made by Mr. Sargent...
John L. Lewis was quick to seize the chance to put himself on the non-socialist side of the argument. Said...