Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Approved a joint resolution requesting the Interstate Commerce Commission to make an inquiry into freight rates with a view to adjusting them in such a manner as to relieve the basic industry of agriculture...
Rumors of a corner in grain abound, and high prices ma)' in some degree be due to an extended short interest. Yet the basic cause for soaring grain prices is the shortage of world wheat, due to crop failures abroad, and heavy consequent export buying. Foreigners have taken off the market of late about 10,000,000 bushels of Argentine and Australian wheat. Russia, formerly a grain exporter, is reported to have entered the market as a buyer of U. S., Canadian and Argentine Hour, and of about 10, 000,000 bushels of U. S. seed wheat. To date...
...long ago, an enterprising gentleman named Van Heusen invented a soft collar for male wearers, and obtained basic patent rights to the product. Subsequently, he sold these patents to the Phillips-Jones Co., and has received $1,000,000 in royalties for this invention. So many consumers became converts to the soft collar that existing makers of hard collars began to feel the competition seriously, began to make soft collars themselves, in alleged violation of the Van Heusen patents. Chief among these were Cluett, Peabody & Co., Earl & Wilson, Manhattan Shirt Co., Hall Hartwell Co., George P. Ide Co., Vanzandt...
...bonds continued dull with a falling tendency, while stocks continued their rise, although more moderately than in recent weeks. The industrial situation continued to improve. Slightly firmer commodity prices were permitting inventories to be marked at satisfactory figures, while production in iron and steel, as well as in other basic industries, continued to advance...
...upward of a quarter of a century educators have realized that college life can be effectively organized and college traditions adequately inculcated only when the student body is split up into subordinate units. That was the basic idea of the "Quads" which Woodrow Wilson planned for Princeton. President Lowell was himself once a convert to some such idea. But throughout the land educators have continued to lavish money upon laboratory training and research, upon technical and business schools and to shed copiously sentimental tears over each new evidence of the decline in the true spirit of college life. New York...