Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sweden, situated between two prohibition countries-Norway and Finland, claims to be soberer than either. Each household is allowed four liters of liquor per month. Since 1911 when liquor restrictions were adopted, consumption has fallen from 2 liters per capita per annum to 12 liters, "public offenses" from 47 per 1,000 population to 19 per 1,000 population, drunkards treated in hospitals from 1.2 per 1,000 population...
When the Department of Agriculture's estimate of the 1925 cotton crop as of July 16 dropped with a thud to 13,588,000 bales (TIME, Aug. 3), no little comment in the trade was occasioned. The report as of August 1 showed less startling changes. Condition had fallen off from 70.4 on the former to 65.6 on the latter date. Nevertheless, the crop was estimated at 13,566,000 bales-only 22,000 bales under the July 16 figure. Losses in Texas owing to drought have apparently been practically offset by gains in more easterly portions...
...resignation was caused by the "foul campaign of misrepresentation carried out by the Fascisti in the days preceding the election." The Giornale d'ltalia said that the resignation was a protest against the Fascist régime and showed the depths to which political methods in Italy had fallen. For thus airing their opinions the first editions of the day were suppressed by the censor...
Wild, Wild Susan. Bebe Daniels has fallen into the clutches of another ponderous plot. It is a burlesque melodrama which calls for her appearance in overalls. There is also Rod La Rocque...
...Forshay, who is Chairman of the American Association of Holders of German Mark Securities, at once wrote a letter of protest to the Curb Association about the matter. He and his fellow members of the A. A. H. G. M. S. have by no means forgotten their mark securities, fallen to worthlessness almost by the recent devaluation of the War mark. Mr. Zimmerman declares that this devaluation has amounted to repudiation, that in effect Cologne and other German cities are in default on their mark bonds, and that therefore no German city should be permitted in the future to borrow...