Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standstill. "Portia" Borders became the heroine of thousands of Britons who pay high rents for grimy kennels or find their shiny new houses falling apart. Many of them have been making it tough for landlords as increasing numbers of "Tenants' Defence Leagues" have demanded lower rents, better plumbing, repairs. If the owner is stubborn, he has a hard time collecting his rent...
...Astronomer Percival Lowell picked up the canal idea with enthusiasm, claimed he could see them clearly. His theory: the canals were built to bring water from the melting ice of the polar caps, by Martian inhabitants desperately trying to keep their arid lands irrigated. Other astronomers, some with better eyesight than Lowell's, declared that the canals were optical and psychological illusions. Certainly narrow, clear, straight markings which could be called canals do not show up in photographs, appear at their clearest in the drawings of astronomers who believe in their existence...
Since there is a better view of Mars this time from the Earth's southern hemisphere than from the northern, Dr. Slipher was last week posted at Harvard's observatory near Bloemfontein in South Africa. He discovered that Solis Lacus, a dark spot on Mars as big as the U. S. and located near the Martian south pole, had assumed a shape never before seen, or at least not in the last half-century. This change of shape, reasoned Old Marster Slipher, could be plausibly ascribed to the growth of fresh vegetation...
...Early in July, the French Government stepped into the copper market with an order for 50,000 tons, insisted that 29,000 tons of it be shipped immediately from U. S. stocks. This first installment was better than half of total domestic copper deliveries for any month this year. Fearing a runaway sellers' market, domestic buyers in the first three weeks of July bought over 160,000 tons, more than they had ordered in any single month since the flush days of October 1936 before President Roosevelt denounced high copper prices. This bid up the domestic price of copper...
...copper inventories were still high (340,000 tons, 80,000 above the high inventoried end of 1937) and even in a good month, U. S. copper consumption does not often exceed 80,000 tons. If forward buying books July's total copper orders to 200,000 tons or better, four or even five months' additional supply at present rate of domestic consumption will be added to inventories...