Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exactly bluffing, but they put forward their full demand as a start in the conversations, and to their surprise Mr. Baldwin said he thought the terms were fair, and accepted them. If all business was as easy as that there would be no joy in its pursuit. But this crude job, jocularly called a 'settlement,' was to have a disastrous effect upon the whole further course of negotiations on international War-debts. The United States could not easily let off other countries with more favorable terms than she had exacted from us, and as a consequence the settlement...
...mind imposes upon it. When Rivers, the famous Mexican mural painter, draws a tractor, he does not delve into his folio for a model or into the store of his technical information for the knowledge, but relies upon his mental image, with the result that his machines though often crude and grotesque, are always recognizable and familiar...
...woes of the rubber industry are many and complicated. The decline in crude rubber to a new low of 3? per Ib. has caused many large inventory losses. Shipments of tires have fallen sharply. In 1931 total shipments were 6.7% below 1930, 27.9% below 1929. In January they were off 13.1% from January 1931. Problems of marketing have been complex, sales to chain stores and service stations being made at prices often considered unfair by independent dealers...
...Adopt a 1¢-per-gal. import tax (i. e. tariff) on crude oil and gasoline. Unsuccessfully (190-10-97) did Representatives from the Atlantic seaboard attempt to block this concession to the Southwestern oil producers. Next day the House chaplain opened the session by reciting . . . Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. (Psalm...
...Mayor James Lee Key (TIME, March 28) because he had supported bond issues for Negro schools. In general its news policy is more conservative than others; it does not play up crime or scandal. First issues varied between six and eight pages including a page of incredibly crude comic strips...