Word: contently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steelmongers prefer foreign manganese ore. The domestic ore has a low metal content. Of the U. S. consumption, 95% is imported despite higher foreign prices. Last year the U. S. collected $8,065,155 in manganese ore tariffs...
...Steel Corp. Well he knew what the steelman wanted. Also on the job was Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract with the Soviet for from 80,000 to 150,000 tons of Georgian manganese ore per annum. 3) Reconsidering, the Finance Committee...
Continuing, he said things calculated to amaze both the pious and the artistic. "We do not want something Gothic," he declared. "The time has gone by when the Church should be content with a weak imitation of medieval architecture. Our own age is worthy of interpretation right now and there could be no finer place than a great seaport like Liverpool. . . . On the other hand, we want nothing 'Epsteinish...
...Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals: "Not . . . revolutionary. . . . Prohibitionists have never believed it is desirable to set up a national police force . . . for the sole purpose of enforcement. . . . Unfortunate word 'modification' . . . interpretation ... to imply that state laws may be enacted which in fact legalize alcoholic content in beverages prohibited by the Federal Constitution, we believe an entirely mistaken...
...semi-feature character) which are prepared, written and set up by Western Newspaper Union staff. The country editor, low on news, simply takes as much of the boiler plate material as he needs to fill up his issue. Patent insides are somewhat different, pertaining to advertising, not to editorial content. The editor who patronizes a patent insides service is sent an entire newspaper With the first page blank but with many an advertisement printed on the inside pages. Then the editor runs the paper through his presses and prints local news on the blank spaces between the advertisements. Inasmuch...