Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Commonwealth produces nearly three quarters of the world's crude rubber and the U. S. consumes about the same proportion. During the War prices were about 50¢ a pound. Following the War, prices dropped to around 17¢. A fair price is somewhere in the neighborhood of 30¢ or 35¢. Following the War the British rubber producers were in much the same trouble that U. S. agriculture is in today?overproduction and ruinously low prices. To remedy this a special type of export tax was devised to reduce the production of rubber. It was so arranged as to discourage production...
...bartender would make this film for some people. But Mr. Turpin is one of the few actors who are incomprehensibly absent from the screen much of the time. The play is not, however, a cross-eyed comedy. It is a love story with a steel-mill background and fair enough...
...Family. Since It Pays to Advertise and The Tailor Made Man, Grant Mitchell has had lean luck. His undoubted but somewhat restricted talents have not been fitted into a suitable play. This one is about an outsider who married into a Massachusetts household of the aristocratic Adamses. A fair idea but most blunderingly handled...
...George Washington type, as counsel would have you believe ? Is he not rather of the all too familiar charlatan and demagog type?like Alcibiades, Catiline, and except for a decided difference in poise and mental powers in Burr's favor, like Aaron Burr? He is a good flyer, a fair rider, a good shot, flamboyant, self-advertising, wildly imaginative, destructive, never constructive except in wild non-feasible schemes, and never overly careful as to the ethics of his methods...
...have been trying to force medical men who are rotten writers to use typewriters. I guess you would come under that rule. It doesn't strike me as a fair deal to your patients that your writing should not be so legible that any chemist could read it. Suppose it were urgent and none but Blank could read the writing and Blank's store was closed. You would sign a death certificate just so. A nod is as good as a wink, and this note may lead to some intelligibility...