Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hostile European nation of about equal military and naval strength was at the point of breaking friendly relations with the U. S. About the first of the year its fleet was sighted in mid-Atlantic. At once our Pacific fleet was ordered to the Atlantic. Our Atlantic Fleet remained in Narragansett Bay, protecting our eastern coast. A detachment of the enemy proceeded to Panama to prevent our Pacific Fleet from passing through the Canal. This detachment, known as the Black Fleet, was impersonated by our Atlantic Fleet. The Pacific Fleet, attempting to pass through the Canal, was dubbed the Blue...
John Corbin: "A pair of feminine portraits for which it would be hard or impossible to find an equal in the entire range of modern comedy...
...luncheon at the Biltmore. For guests he had Frank Munsey, owner of three metropolitan papers, Morgan J. O'Brien (former Presiding Justice Appellate Division, N. Y. Supreme Court), A. C. Pearson, George Edgar Smith, "Tex" Rickard (fight promoter), Joseph P. Day (real estate man and auctioneer) and others of equal prominence. Why did these men come at his call? Perhaps the answer is Great Neck, L. I., where Swope has his home. There he holds great croquet parties. There he gathers his disciples?Arthur Krock, F. P. Adams, Heywood Broun and other able members of the World staff...
...held lightly as a business proposition was afforded by the annual report of the National Biscuit Co. for 1923. The net earnings for last year, after all expenses, taxes and other accounts, amounted to $12,092,828?the largest net earnings in the Company's history, and equal to $5.05 on each share of its common stock after the regular 7% dividends were paid on the preferred. In 1922 the Company earned $4.53 on each common share...
University track athletes will be pitted against some of the foremost stars in the country in the Knights of Columbus games at Mechanics Building tonight. Loren Murchison, sprinter from the Newark A. C.--perhaps the equal of Charles Paddock--L. R. Brown, former Dartmouth high-jumper and joint holder of the world's indoor record, and Lloyd Hahn, conqueror of the great Joie Ray in New York last Saturday, are a few of the more notable entries...