Word: cements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britain today is potentially not less wealthy than she was before the War. She can grant enormous credits to her Dominions and Colonies in the shape of materials. Materials, such as machinery, rails, structural steel, cement, etc., would call for increased labor in the Dominions to put 'them to practical use and thereby increase production or real worth. The Dominions would then be placed in a position to repay the credits granted to them by the Mother Country. The house of cards falls, however, unless the Dominions are assured of a market for their increased production. That is what...
...Governor ordered all work stopped on a $1,000,000 highway in Mr. McBee's election district, while he investigated whether McBee was receiving " a large fee " from a contracting cement company...
Mussolini's dictatorial powers expire on December 31; unless he can, by his " electoral reform" cement his power over his Party before elections, he will either be dragged by his followers into some foolish coup d'état, or will find his Party outvoted in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and his position intolerable...
...similar way the rates on cement are based upon Gary, Ind. If a farmer in a middle western center goes to a factory to buy a load of cement, he is charged the freight rate from Gary even if he hauls it back in his own truck...
...great significance to the common fear of coming inflation is a table of stocks of basic commodities as of January 1,1923, in the bulletin of the New York Reserve Bank. Compared with January 1, 1922, much smaller stocks were reported of anthracite and bituminous coal, cement, brick, wood pulp, skins, leather, cotton, lamb. Larger stocks were reported in crude petroleum, kerosene, gasoline, beef, pork. Until stocks of commodities generally increase, it may be concluded that consumption is keeping pace with production, and that in consequence inflation is not yet upon...