Word: compacted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young Turkey is compact, and the dictature of Mustafa Kemal, the Ghazi ("The Victorious"), is absolute over such territory as is left. There is not the occasion for internal strife and wholesale massacre that there once was. ¶ Though the leopard cannot change its spots, the Young Turks naturally feel less ferocity than formerly toward those few Armenians, Greeks and Jews who are now trading quietly in Turkey and paying the present high taxes...
Scaremongers whispered: "It's a wave, sweeping the colleges. . . . A club . . . the members make solemn compact...
...With such things to fight for and with arrogant confidence, President Lewis and his bituminous boys assembled last week in Indianapolis to draw up their terms. On St. Valentine's Day, these terms will be presented to the coal operators at Miami, Fla., where a new compact will be attempted. The Operators, notwithstanding the fact that 1926 was a banner bituminous year, are having trouble. The soft coal industry, unlike the hard coal industry, is only partly unionized. Thus, the operators in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, who employ union labor at $7.50 per day, have to compete...
None the less, U. S. rubber manufacturers are at the mercy of British growers. Vexed, last week Firestone, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber, Goodyear, Ajax, Fisk, Kelly-Springfield decided to circumvent the forestallers. They invited General Motors, Willys-Overland, Dodge Bros., Packard, Studebaker and other interested firms into their compact; created a $40,000,000 fund to buy up at once 50,000 tons ($30,000,000 worth) of crude rubber. This will be put in storage. If crude prices go above 42? a pound, manufacturers can draw on this store or the whole amount may be dumped against a rising...
...important product. His wagon works he re-arranged so that it could make motor truck and bus bodies. His cabinet workers who used to make bar fixtures were idle. He set them to making cabinets for ice cream par lors. His refrigerating engineers devised a refrigerated motor truck and compact drug store coolers. In Manhattan, New Organs and Oklahoma City, Anheuser-Busch branches are making 1,000,000 gallons of ice cream yearly. Branches make 750,000 tons of ice each year and operate 14,000,000 cu. ft. of refrigerating space...