Word: close
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the Senate last week ill winds whined and whistled for the Hoover administration. Consideration of the farm relief bill drew to a close. The Senate's Republican Leader, Senator Watson of Indiana, appeared on the floor in mourning. "When I go to a funeral, I dress for it," he explained with a liverish smile...
Blackstrap. The close interrelation of Industry and Husbandry is clearly set up in the case of blackstrap?a by-product of molasses and cane sugar, used chiefly for making industrial alcohol. The present duty on blackstrap is about ¼¢ per gallon. The new duty would average between 1¼¢ and 2¢ per gallon, depending upon the sugar content. Farm groups forced this increase on the Ways & Means Committee by the argument that a higher levy on this imported article would turn the alcohol manufacturers to domestic corn as a base for their product...
Commission Changes. Changes were proposed in the Tariff Commission to bring it under close Presidential control. The old membership would be swept out of office. Seven, instead of six, new commissioners would be appointed, at higher salaries. Two-party representation on the Commission would be abolished. With this new Commission, the President could utilize the flexible provision of the tariff law (50% changes in tariff rates at a stroke of the pen) with great facility...
...Geneva, suave U. S. Delegate Gibson -a close friend and co-worker with Herbert Hoover since Belgian War relief days -had laid down, in addition to the Hoover Formula which he could not present, two major principles...
...were two chief purposes which motivated the scientists who carried huge pieces of apparatus including two telescopes over 60 ft. long to the tiny spots where observations were possible: 1) To study the "Einstein effect" - to determine the amount which the light rays of stars are deflected in passing close to the sun; 2) To study the nature of the sun by taking pictures of its corona and outer layers...