Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industries is looked upon by the world as almost phenomenal. . . . This is why we have this time established, in our office, this sort of machinery under the style of the Trade Mediation Department. ... If interested in the trade with Japan, you are solicited." Advertised products include apparently exact Japanese copies of Eastman Kodaks, Thermos Bottles, Mazda Lamps. But Osaka's ingenious K. Mori & Co. have thought of something smarter than just aping a Waterman Pen. Proudly their advertisement touts...
...publicity she could give them. Correspondents waiting outside a thin door heard the prosecutor shout at the top of his voice "Miss Sittell you are free! You can go wherever you please!! You can make any statement you like about your imprisonment BUT BE SURE TO SPEAK THE EXACT TRUTH...
...fact that the decision has little legal significance does not, of course, lessen its popular influence appreciably. Apparently the administration has been defeated in the courts; therefore the existing confusion surrounding the exact definition of its powers is increased. For this reason a final verdict has been rendered more than ever necessary...
...launched a 1934 drive in behalf of half-dead heavy industry by setting up the National Housing Administration which by year-end had induced householders to spend $100,000,000 on home renovation. But the Federal Reserve's latest index of industrial production stood at 74%, almost the exact level of a year earlier, while NRA, without last year's Man of the Year Hugh S. Johnson, broke like a wave on the beach; its price-fixing efforts abandoned; its collective bargaining feature challenged in the courts; its funeral oration read by Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors...
Detroit. Artist who has spent the most time with the most success portraying Detroit is a Philadelphian?Charles Sheeler. Commissioned by Edsel Ford in 1927 to do a series of paintings of the Ford River Rouge plant, Painter Sheele turned out a series of meticulous, exact canvases that in black and white reproductions are almost indistinguishable from Photographer Sheeler's excellent camera studies of similar subjects. In spite of objecting to his photographic technique, most critics allow Sheeler a top place among U. S. painters of industrial scenes. Michigan's nearest approach to catching the U. S. scene in paint...