Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...December, 1920, a representative of the Swiss company wrote an attorney in New York that it had acquired the control of the Metallbank and the Metallgesellschaft in the fall of 1919 and therefore it was entitled to the $7,000,000 held by the Alien Property Custodian...
...Germany took advantage of her fall in currency to put all her large industrial plants in order, and is now ready for producing goods on a large scale capacity, greater than any other nation. A high tariff is the only protection the United States has to offset, for, if it is lowered, the high-waged American worker will meet the direct competition of the low-waged German. "As a Democrat, I think it is impossible to change the present tariff...
...political grave of the Ohio gang, the little flowers of indictment still grow every spring, scenting the air with the perfume of scandal and the breath of alleged corruption (TIME, May 17). Already the unsuspecting blossoms of Messrs. Doheny and Fall, Daugherty and Miller have poked their heads above the ground into the dew of publicity. Wary investigators plucked them, hurried them into stuffy courtrooms...
...with a patron, he met the Frenchman, Lavoisier, and told him of his experiment. Lavoisier later worked out the modern theory that combustion ("fire") consists in the union of oxygen with another element, usually carbon-a discovery nearly as important as Newton's detection of gravity through the fall of an apple...
...jerk the strings of a monster parachute folded in the fuselage behind the cockpit, shut off his motor and let the plane plunge toward the ground like a plummet. Anxious watchers saw a white mushroom suddenly billow above the dropping craft. With a jerk, the plane's fall was retarded to a comparatively gradual downward float, about 38 ft. per second. At first there was a sideways swing to the suspended plane, then it hung even below its straining, air-filled life-preserver, to which it was harnessed by five stout cables. In slightly more than a minute...