Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motors abroad. Last year's imports were 566 cars valued at $1,201,000. Senator Reed was apparently less interested in relieving the U. S. rich of a duty which they scarcely feel, than in neutralizing the public effect of duty increases on Pennsylvania-produced commodities. To cut the automobile duty would, psychologically if not economically, reduce Industry's protection, make Husbandry's protection seem larger. This Reed proposal seemed to illustrate what Senator Smoot had meant by Finance Committee gestures...
...duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them into the U. S. duty free as "agricultural implements" lent strength to this fear, foreshadowed dissension in the industry on a tariff cut...
...frozen, icy-crystals form inside them, break down the cell walls and allow flavor-giving juices to escape. The quicker the freezing, the smaller the crystals and the less the breakage. Old time freezing methods took 36 hours; other quick-freezing methods take 100 minutes. Mr. Taylor has cut an hour from the previous record. Thus the inland housewife can buy fish which, though frozen, are still essentially fresh, have the flavor and quality of fish newly caught. The Taylor, Birdseye and other quick-freezing processes have been important factors in the recently renewed prosperity of the fishing industry. Back...
...Schmeling heard this, he tried to chop wood, too, but desisted after he struck nearer his foot than the log. Pauline Uzcudun, sister of Paulino, is also a Basque woodchopper and weighs 220 Ib. Uzcudun likes to have women around his camp, big and little, relatives or not (see cut...
...lips new-cut and coloured by my sire...