Word: excesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excess production of crude and refined oils in the California and Mid-Continent fields this Spring led to heavy overproduction. Prices declined, but the fall was kept orderly by the Standard Oil companies, with the view of stabilizing the situation. The farming states, devoted as they are to plans for stabilizing wheat, could see no virtue in employing similar methods in any other industry, and Governor McMaster of South Dakota gained considerable applause when he purchased with state funds some 160,000 gallons of gasoline from a hard-pressed refiner, and offered it for sale at 16¢. At once...
While selective immigration, beginning before immigrants sail, will solve certain problems-such as the deportation of arrivals for unfitness or because they are in excess of the quotas allowed-it will not materially affect the "rush" question...
...practically nonexistent, wages are high, merchants' stocks are scanty rather than heavy and the construction industry is apparently settling into more inexpensive and efficient production. On the other hand, wheat has touched new low prices under one dollar, cotton has also declined, petroleum is being produced in excess of the immediate demand, radical legislators are rapidly getting into apparent control of the next Congress, the long-predicted crash of financial Germany is seemingly near at hand. Finally, stock prices - usually a reliable index as to future business conditions-have continued to sink ominously...
Magnus?everybody in Minnesota including himself calls him Magnus?won on a platform of Government control (in favor of the farmers) of railroads, coal mines, Federal Reserve Bank. He is for a cash soldier bonus, heavier income surtaxes, excess profits taxes, restriction of the power of the courts in granting injunctions against labor, better prices for farm products, no lowering of wages, no entangling alliances...
...their business of life, but in almost every case they are influential and important men in the communities in which they live." The gentleman who, under the name of Quadwrangler, writes educational gossip for the Boston Transcript, disagrees. He thinks the successful undergraduate is such merely because of an excess of the competitive spirit, whereas the true student is such because he "must"-his simple doom is to be scholarly. Without coming to blows with the venerable Bostonian, it is possible to point out that he is, unfortunately, quite wrong. It is as possible to be a great halfback because...