Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of prices, international producers' associations usually step on the accelerator rather than on the brake. But the three-year-old international copper cartel has learned better from the sad experiences of the older cartels. Fortnight ago the cartel permitted an increase in production from 95% to 105% of agreed tonnage. Despite this deterrent, prices continued to rise. Last week the cartel removed all restrictions on production, thus dumped a potential 30,000 tons per month more copper on the international market. This time the U. S. price pulled up short at 11.25?, the export price fell...
...mournful-visaged, crop-headed aristocrat, who was dispossessed of his Russian estates by the revolution of 1917, he is even sicker of Russia's present government than of his besetting Prelude. Asked recently what kind of government would attract him back to Russia again, Rachmaninoff replied: "A better...
...plump, homey individual, as different from Soprano Farrar as Pilsener is from champagne, Soprano Lehmann writes much better. The daughter of a small town bookkeeper who wanted her to be come a respectable stenographer or school teacher, Lotte Lehmann made a very gradual climb to stardom, worked her way laboriously through bit parts at second-rank German opera houses. It was not until the London Covent Garden season of 1923 that she won international fame. But once won, that fame stuck like well-swabbed glue...
Although Fred Jacoby is a professional motorboat racer (61% of U. S. outboard racers are professional), he earns his livelihood as a scenic artist, painting backdrops for Broadway shows. A veteran of twelve years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted...
...Points are awarded for fifth place or better. Jacoby competed in 65 races-won 36 first places, ten seconds, eleven thirds, four fourths and three fifths, plus bonus points for the Albany marathon and national championship events...