Word: bedevilment
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Loree's proposal was made as long ago as 1905. It was indorsed by the late E. H. Harriman in 1908, shortly before his death. When Mr. Loree resurrected the plan last year, American railroad men wondered whether he did it in all seriousness, or merely to bedevil the "Big Four" which had more or less ignored him. Mr. Loree was apparently quite in earnest, however, and applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to build the new line...
Since consumption cannot be increased, production must be curtailed. This may be done voluntarily under the economic spur of large stocks and low prices, or involuntarily in case Nature blights the 1926 grape crop. But Nature, fickle jade, prefers to cherish grapes that are not needed, and bedevil cotton and wheat that are badly wanted, both here and abroad...