Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt sitting in his study, was less than human if he did not smile. Nature, which allowed the cotton farmer 170 lb. for his average acre during the ten years preceding 1933, was about to bestow a bountiful 223 lb. per acre, equal to 151 S's, highest yield in U. S. history. Reasons: Abandonment of less productive acres in favor of cash benefits; scientific seed improvement. Results: The price of cotton had tumbled from about 12? last spring to 10?, cotton farmers' loud cries of "Do something!" were resounding in Southern Congressmen's ears...
Hawaii and Puerto Rico, although voteless, have long contended that they are entitled to equal consideration with Louisiana, Michigan, Colorado or any other State. Delegates from Honolulu are forever pointing out that Hawaii pays more income tax than any of 16 States. But last week U. S. citizens in those islands feared that the House of Representatives regarded them as mere colonies. Whereas New York or Georgia might refine all the sugar they could get their hands on, the House restricted Hawaiian refiners to 3%, Puerto Rico refiners to 16% of their own sugar which they produce for consumption...
Since Egypt was already an "Independent Sovereign State" by the Treaty of 1922, the new Treaty is one of "Military Alliance/' intended to flatter Egyptians with the notion that they are held in esteem by the British as allies on equal terms. Held the Egyptians continue to be, for Britain is to retain 10,000 troops in the Suez Canal zone and British bombing planes have the right to operate freely over any part of Egypt-with Egyptian bombing planes given for the first time the privilege of operating freely over England.* The British Navy retains its permanent base...
...British puppet. Behind the scenes and at moments when British pressure was relaxed. Fuad I was always wangling this or that concession for Egypt from her masters, set an example which 18-year-old Farouk I will have to show the character and tenacity of a Yorkshire governess to equal...
...this new biography, the best so far, the biographer sets himself to prove that modern critics who belittle Gibbon's history commit an error equal to Boswell's when he snarled that "Gibbon is an ugly, affected, disgusting fellow," or to Dr. Johnson's when that captious fellow club-member implied that it was Gibbon who had ruined Rome. Ingenious as well as admiring, Biographer Low makes no attempt to turn ugly-duckling Gibbon into a swan: the greatness of The Decline and Fall is dramatized more effectively by contrast with the fussy mite...