Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come back into the market for more inventory. Reluctantly Kennecott and Anaconda, both with lower costs han Phelps Dodge, followed the price up, while frightened consumers bought still more. Small copper fabricators, worried, ike small steelmen, about the rising price and shortened supplies of their raw material, began to exert political pressure on Washington to halve the 4? a pound copper tariff, in order to unfix the copper market by bringing 6 to 8? Chilean and Canadian Copper in. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his eye on scrap and steel as much as on copper, addressed another letter to Wyoming...
...there seem to be reasons for hoping that peace is not an impossibility at this juncture. Three: America's best chance for peace lies in an immediate end of the war. In the light of these facts, it is clear that the President is almost under an obligation to exert every office he possesses to bring about such a peace...
Another power in Danzig, Mr. Chamberlain said, could "block Poland's access to the sea and so exert an economic and military stranglehold upon her." While there was no question of "any oppression of the German population in Danzig" and the present status of the City was "not basically unjust or illogical," he believed that in a "clearer atmosphere possible improvements could be discussed...
...even faced the evil openly. Its attitude has been one of scolding disapproval, and this inarticulate and inconsistent. Now, in blanket terms which leave no outs, it has condemned the cram parlors of the Square. "Commercial tutoring . . . rests upon a false theory of education and certain practices exert a harmful influence." Harvard has leveled moral sanctions against the use of tutoring schools...
Notes between the notes: Most of the music stores in town (Briggs included) have finally gotten sheet copies of the Bob Zurke and Jesse Stacy piano solos. While they're not too easy to read, they're worth the try . . . To see just how much influence Louis Armstrong did exert on jazz, catch the opening bars in Erskine Hawkins' "Swing Out," his theme song . . . Art Tatum's piano on "Tea For Two" (Decca) while not real swing, is interesting enough technically to make listening...