Word: duction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goal of the Disarmament Con ference must be not limitation of arma ments at existing strength but their re duction...
...cost of transportation from the principal point of shipment to the points of consumption, as did these defendants, and who, as they did, meet and discuss such information and statistics without, however, reaching or attempting to reach any agreement or any concerted action with respect to prices or pro- duction or restraining competition, do not thereby engage in unlawful restraint of commerce...
...then rallied to 3,-466,086 tons last March. April, 1924, however, showed a reduction to 3,233,428 tons, and new figures for last May reveal the astonishing drop to 2,615,110 tons. From an average daily output of 111,809 tons last March, the similar pro duction last month was only 84,358 tons. Figures of blast furnaces in operation tell the same story. During the first three months of this year, 39 new furnaces were operated. But in April, 40 were discontinued, and last May, 46 more were halted. On June 1, only 184 furnaces were...
...this is compensated for by superior American natural resources and efficiency. Yet the competition of Continental steel is already felt in the world's markets, particularly perhaps in Great Britain. It is felt that unless new demand at home can be stimulated and maintained, the present pro-'duction rate in American steel can scarcely be continued. Our export steel is already selling 15% under domestic prices, but the large quantities of steel production tied up by the French occupation of the Ruhr has yet to come upon the market in considerable quantities...
...there's the problem, too, for what of Babbitt, Moon Calf, Eric Dorn? Who can enjoy the mirrors of his mediocrity? Who can revel in the garbage of his prurience ? It is human nature, moralists to the contrary, to enjoy a good s duction with Tom Jones or Roderick Random. It is human nature to picture yourself a glorious Ivanhoe or a clever Pendennis. It is not human nature to imagine yourself a nobody Babbitt doing any no-account and nasty business in any Middle Western babbitt warren. There is no vanity in futility and filth...