Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Serious harm to the larger oil companies through this sharp drop in prices is most unlikely. As far as the Standard Oil companies are concerned, their chief danger will lie in the curiously contradictory attacks made upon them in connection with it. First, they were blamed for keeping gasoline prices too high. But when they reduced prices to meet all competition, they were blamed for so doing on the grounds that they aimed to ruin the independent oil companies and thereby to establish a monopoly...
...wholesale commodity prices, are already unfavorable influences upon certain mercantile lines. But caution is more prevalent among manufacturers than among merchants, and this seems altogether justified from such facts as have clearly emerged in a cloudy and confused outlook. Nowhere is there any fear of panic, but the danger of a depression is making itself more widely felt as the Fall approaches...
...forecast on the vital statistics for 1922 shows an increasing danger that France will be poorer than ever in men. In 1920 the population increased by 160,000; in 1921 the increase was only 9,000; a net decrease is expected for 1922. The present shortage of living quarters, the uncertainty of modern French life, and the lowered moral standards that followed the War are alike blamed for the failure of the French nation to raise the most valuable of all crops?babies...
...Article X reads: "The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled...
...approaching an open switch. The signals are for full speed ahead with two " blocks" clear, medium speed with one block clear, and stop when within 1,800 feet of a train or switch. Whether the engineer fails to do his part or not, he cannot run his train into danger. Should the control system itself get out of order, all trains in the block would be automatically stopped...