Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed exempting U. S. vessels in coastwise trade from toll, but Great Britain objected that this was a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty under which the U. S., formerly a partner in the canal business with Great Britain, acquired sole rights in the project and promised equal treatment to "all nations." Elihu Root, then a Senator, held that the law violated our treaty promise. President Wilson and Ambassador Page took the same attitude. In the Spring of 1914. the President asked that the law be repealed. After a bitter wrangle for several months this was done. Party lines were...
...team has been practicing at the range for some time, but this is the first shooting against outside competition that they have engaged in this year. All the members of the squads of both University and Freshman teams have been invited to attend. Special equalization and Fits targets will be used, automatically providing handicaps which will give everyone an equal chance in the shooting...
...lineups were picked. According to Coach Bigelow it is expected there will be no cut in the squad until the football men come out on December 8. In the meanwhile he will watch carefully the work of the new candidates in order to give all the men an equal chance...
...several months before election, no one understood future business probabilities because nothing was happening. Since election, there has been equal doubt and ignorance, but for the opposite reason-that too much was happening...
...faster they can go and the greater the proportion of commercial load they can carry relative to their gross weight. Accordingly, the Good-year-Zeppelin Co. is planning on a 5,000,000 cu. ft. ship and the British are actually starting work on two ships of equal size...