Word: due
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel; its removal, ships of paper. Complaint was made that if the three-year provision were dropped the new fleet would remain at the blue-print stage indefinitely. To bolster this argument it was recalled that in 1924 Congress authorized eight cruisers, none of which is yet completed, due to slow White House action...
...week was much more concrete. The Navy had asked for $417,000,000 to maintain its present men, ships, yards. The House Appropriations Committee pondered and recommended $352,000,000. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur complained that the Navy is not prepared for war, that many ships are inactive due to lack of repair funds...
...fascination which drives a CRIMSON candidate through nine weeks of competition to the exclusion of the unusual joys of undergraduate life is due chiefly to the variety of the work. The four departments opening their doors to prospective editors tonight offer four totally different paths of expression...
When payments for the first lot fell due, the first Pollier company was declared unable to meet its obligations to the Treasury, but a second and ostensibly stronger company was formed to assume the debt and contract for still more sugar. This procedure was repeated several times. Meanwhile the sugar was sold, mostly in England, and the profits were salted away outside of France...
Sugarmen wondered on what Rudolph Spreckels had built his faith. Like oil, the sugar industry suffers from overproduction. Consumption of sugar has declined steadily, due .to diet regulation, to increased smoking by men, women, children. Federal Sugar Refining Co. is no exception. Its last earnings report (1924) showed a deficit...