Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Mr. Edgerton had in mind when he implied that the tariff rates were not so important as their administration was the two conflicting methods of valuing imports for customs purposes. One method, called Foreign, values an article at its fair sale price in the country of production, i.e., the price at which the importer buys it. The other method, called U. S., values an article at the U. S. sale price of a similar article. Illustration...
...from Speculator, N. Y., to New York City. To insure his life for $300,000 and the plane for $30,000 during the single, short trip, his insurance company charged a premium of $1,000. Another company might have charged more, another less. No one knows what is a fair rate for aviation insurance risks. Whatever standards exist are constantly fluctuating and depend on a multitude of conditions and contingencies. To help the insurance companies fix standards the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics last week instituted a thoroughgoing survey of aviation mortality...
...excess of his reasonable requirements. . . . Even if we assume that he really bought the flour for the benefit of the college, he is still a hoarder, for he held enough for three years' supply. ... He is, by so doing, depriving some portion of the community of its fair share of a scarce food product. The better educated a man is the more clearly he ought to see this moral principle...
Dangerous Curves (Paramount). It would not be fair to apply the term stale to this story about a circus performer who loses his skill when his female partner breaks up the team. Long ago it passed from being simply stale to an honorable status as one of the great stencils of picturemaking. Long research has proved that there are two ways in which the shaken fellow can be redeemed: 1) by the return of his original partner; 2) by another girl in the company who has loved him all the time but whose sacrifices have never been appreciated until...
...will not, because you have not been fair about this matter. You have not been honest. I don't approve of your actions...