Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cristalina, growing under similar agronomic conditions, and, as it is a more persistent grower, the fields do not need replanting so frequently. The cane stalks are solid and of greater weight than Cristalina. A sample of 22 carloads of this cane averaged 239 arrobas per car heavier than an equal number of Cristalina. (Cristalina usually weighs from 1,000 to 1,100 arrobas per carload...
...socially-equal fellow townsmen, Van Wagenen Ailing, became hard up. Lake Forest taxes were so high that Mr. Ailing felt the need of subdividing his estate for homesites. Mr. Alling's across-the-road neighbor, one Benjamin Franklin Affleck, heard of this and telegraphed: "Such concentration of housing and population is entirely contrary to the general scheme of things in that part of Lake Forest. . . . We left Winnetka [modest Chicago suburb regarded by some as a stepping-stone to Lake Forest, by others as a model community] because of numerous small houses built in our neighborhood...
...extent the Church of God should influence the affairs of man is a question that can be answered easily in theory; in practice, the solution presents more complexities. Last week, the Federal Council of Churches published a critical report upon the coal controversy in Western Pennsylvania. The report, with equal severity, censured striking miners for their belligerence to non-strikers, the operators for ejecting strikers from their homes. Constructive suggestions were clearly expressed but not striking in their novelty...
...annum. Figuring the life of a car as about five years, replacements should bring the annual normal output to about 5,000,000 cars. This figure has not yet been reached. . . .† Last year General Motors' export business [193,830 cars & trucks worth wholesale $171,991,251] equaled in volume the entire business of the company ten years ago. I see no reason why ten years hence our export business will not equal our total business of today. Toward Henry Ford, Mr. Raskob exhibited the greathearted attitude of modern big business: "It is important to our country that...
...France, and is warmly approved by Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. With Great Britain, and the Pan-American Union, it is intended that it form a trio of balanced powers of the white races. But it is not hard to see that it desires particularly to oppose a united and equal force to that of the United States. By Europe, the economic superiority that rested after the war on the complacent shoulders of this country is regarded not only with bitterness but with fear that through further vicissitudes Europe may become in its poverty completely subservient to the United States...