Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lamp hanging overside, all served by electric storage battery, were to supply light for close inspection of the tunnel walls. All electrical connections were shielded against sparking in the presence of sewer gas whose explosive power, Mr. Brown told reporters, was such that 36 cu. ft. of it was equal to one ton of dynamite. Last week Mr. Brown made a preliminary test of his equipment. He put on woolen basketball socks, sneakers, short hockey pants. He ate a huge breakfast of hot cakes and bacon. Then he got into a rubberized suit, hung a gas mask on his chest...
Under the Jones-White Act of 1928, the Government agreed to lend shipping companies up to 75% of construction costs, pay them fat mail contracts to subsidize operations. This indirect subsidy was still not enough to put U. S. ships on an equal competitive footing with directly subsidized foreign liners...
...plans for new ships to U. S. shipyards, which in turn must agree to return to the Government profit in excess of 10%, for the job. The Authority will accept the lowest bid, but will contract to sell the finished product to the operator at a figure equal to the cost of building the ship in a foreign yard. This figure is almost certain to be lower than the cost in the U. S. The difference constitutes the subsidy paid by the Government. In some cases this subsidy may be as high as 50% of the costs, the Government...
...this Britain & Japan opposed shoulder-to-shoulder demands that "equal rights of passage in either direction should exist for all nations." Stanhope and Litvinoff were soon quarreling and Japan's dry Mr. Sato said: "Even if the British recede from the Anglo-Japanese position, Japan will not recede...
...Arabs, half a dozen British soldiers, some 30 Jews killed. "The daily average of attacks by firearms in Palestine," continued the Colonial Secretary, "runs from ten to 15. Attacks on roads and railways have averaged eight daily. There have been from five to ten bombings daily and an equal number of attacks on telephones and telegraph installations. The British Government has not been and will not be moved by intimidation and outrage...