Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knots-per-hour came the doughty Sternwheelers Tom Greene and Betsy Ann at the grim finish of a 21-mile race upstream from Cincinnati. Long before they could see which was ahead the crowd could hear the roar of the laboring engines. Children cringed, fearing an explosion. Old rivermen felt young again at the familiar sound...
...Harbor, Me., Mr. Wickersham had explained: "I have no stenographer with me but I feel that your letter calls for the most helpful reply I can give and I hope that what I have written may suggest something of value in preparation of your address." Gov. Roosevelt said he felt no restriction had been imposed against the letter's publication. In Washington Chairman Wickersham refused to see newsmen, to answer their questions of whether or not he intended his letter for publication...
...question of continuing Stanley Baldwin's "safeguarding of industry" tariff, the Labor government received the surprising majority of 120 votes, more than even the most optimistic Laborites expected. London business circles felt sure that the duties on motor cars, pianos, machinery?all typical U. S. exports?will be canceled at the passing of next year's budget...
President-Elect William Gerry Morgan. The convention elected Dr. William Gerry Morgan of Washington to take office as president next year at Detroit. Whether or not Prohibitor Wilson felt, as some charged, that his presence in Portland was influencing the convention and partly responsible for the election of Dr. Morgan, who was the Wilson candidate in 1927, the majority of physicians voting retained a clear picture of Dr. Morgan's high professional standing. He promised to try to-clarify the muddle of medical costs now vexing the profession. Dr. Morgan said he supposed "that the true difficulty...
...free list. But now, said he, foreign makers have adopted U. S. production methods, employ U. S. engineers. Furthermore: "We have an increasing number of foreign plants, owned or controlled jointly by American manufacturers and foreign interests, the ultimate effects of which no one can forecast." Mr. Macauley felt, therefore, that a partial reduction of from 25% to 10% should be tried before any free list measure was considered. But buses, heavy duty trucks, electric motor trucks should retain their 25% protection because they are not in mass production...