Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wells read this crude bit of tittle-tattle, he experienced a pang of annoyance which he proceeded to vent by dashing off for the press his own version of his meeting with Mr. Bigelow on the afternoon in question...
...known when he undertook to edit L'Art et la Vie, and later in a novel L'Effort. Mere "Effort" however did not suffice him long. His increasingly militant "golden rulism" found expression in the polemic daily, L'Action. That he holds no brief for mere crude babbitt attainment is clear to anyone who has read his L'Aristocratic Intellectuelle: "So long as a people do not grant to intellectual aristocracy its proper place, so long must their social system remain suspect to the wise and dangerous to the masses...
...House of Representatives last week passed a resolution providing for a committee investigation of "the means and methods of control of production and exportation of crude rubber, coffee, silk, nitrates, potash, quinine, iodine, tin, sisal (a fibre used for cordage), quicksilver, pulpwood . . . their effects upon the commerce of the United States, both as to supply and to price...
...British Commonwealth produces nearly three quarters of the world's crude rubber and the U. S. consumes about the same proportion. During the War prices were about 50¢ a pound. Following the War, prices dropped to around 17¢. A fair price is somewhere in the neighborhood of 30¢ or 35¢. Following the War the British rubber producers were in much the same trouble that U. S. agriculture is in today?overproduction and ruinously low prices. To remedy this a special type of export tax was devised to reduce the production of rubber. It was so arranged as to discourage production...
...many years liners have used oil to heat the steam that drives the propeller, but the Gripsholm is the first big boat to be propelled directly by crude oil as a launch is propelled by petrol...