Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gompers resenting labor's attempt to unionize the steel industry for ends which the steel industry already had in view. A strike was called but failed. Judge Gary had proved himself as good a labor organizer as the unions had; again proved himself the next man's equal at improving his own ethics. Stockholders liked him. Besides paying them their regular dividends Judge Gary for years promised them a fat melon-cutting...
...that the U. S. is approximately equal in naval strength to Britain (whereas the airing of statistics at Geneva has proved Britain's long lead...
...automatically there will be restriction upon their entrance. Restaurants, jazz orchestras, show producers will have to fall back upon the 138,000 union musicians. They will not be able to lure the beggared fiddlers of Europe to the U. S. with wages that appear fabulous to the foreigner though equal to only half the current scale...
...Quebec she moves about with her short dark hair in a bandanna and her legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer her checks to regular currency and seldom cash them, bringing old ones...
...small puff into four equal parts, placed one part in a known amount of sterile water and let it remain for a short time to dislodge the bacteria. Then varying amounts of the water were carefully transferred to sterile glass plates with covers-petri dishes, we call them in the laboratory-and a proper amount of culture media, or food supply for bacteria, added...