Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truth of the matter is there have been remarkably few cancellations and that there has been no surplus of baby chicks in this territory during the banking holiday. . . . I know of n > industry which has experienced such a steady flow of incoming orders through the present difficulties, as our hatcheries. Although the moratorium has struck during the height of the baby chick season, I can introduce you to numer>inn hatcherymen in this district who have more orders on their books (accompanied by a substantial deposit) than they had booked at the same date last year...
...Anspach had not pointed them out a second ahead of time to Engineer Gilbert who by a turn of the dial gave them proper volume. The thundering climaxes in Wagner's Götterdämmerung might have overloaded the amplifiers, resulted in blasts and distortion if the flow of electrical energy had not been monitored...
...loss of hair, is only 28. After graduation from high school in Chicago he worked at various jobs besides dishwashing: factory hand, salesman, jewelry clerk, songwriter, night shift at the post office. The last job he took to find out "where the hell I was heading for. . . . The dead flow of days and nights finally straightened me out and on the day I was notified I was about to be promoted to a regular clerkship with increased wages, I resigned right away and left town the next morning." Since then (1928) he has been "drifting around" but writing steadily. Though...
Only occasionally did Senator Harrison dip into this flow of testimony. Once he got a vigorous assent from Mr. Duffield when he asked: "If the coming special session got to work, composed its differences, balanced the Budget, passed constructive measures and then adjourned quickly, in two months, would not that have a good effect on the country?" And Pat Harrison jokingly advised Mr. Houston to "get off that subject" when the onetime Secretary of the Treasury began to hector Senator Smoot on the evil effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. But for the most part Senator Harrison sat back...
When Anglo-Persian, due to world overproduction of oil, started to curtail its Persian flow (and therefore the Shah's royalties) Chief Marshal of the Court and Minister of State Teymourtache simply could not understand. "O King of Kings," he reputedly said to the Shah, "the policy of the English is clearly wrong. If more oil is produced, the price of this fluid all over the world will become cheaper, thus conferring universal benefit, and the more oil that flows the greater will be Persia's royalties. Since the deluded English wish to produce less oil, not more...