Word: free
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cottage soon grows sick and draughty. Then comes a fire-is it an accident? The peasant gets a fine new home from the Government." A cogent scratch of the nose and then a conclusion: "They take taxes and fix a low-price for grain, but little Uncle Fire is free from their control...
Every so often, newspaperdom becomes agitated over Free Publicity, which is the game between producers and publishers. When the two sides are evenly matched, producers get themselves or their products or services mentioned in public print, without charge, in exact proportion to their news value. Determining that value is, of course, almost entirely up to the publisher. A potent factor, however, is retaining the producer's goodwill so that he will buy advertising space. Feuds arising out of the Free Publicity game are often as not entirely within the publisher's province, between the advertising and editorial departments...
...conference was designed to make the layman articulate in church affairs, was founded on the belief that "there is much to be gained in the realm of religious progress by free discussion among religious leaders of all denominations of the common problems that confront them. The perils that face Christianity have no regard for denominational lines. The problems that most vitally confront Christians are nonsectarian...
Seven Fordson tractors, made in Ireland, last week passed the U. S. Customs duty free. Their free passage resulted from their classification as "agricultural implements." Importance of this decision lay in the fact that Mr. Ford has moved his entire tractor business to Cork, whence it is expected that 100,000 Fordsons a year will eventually be sent to U. S. buyers. The decision also encouraged Ford Internationalism, hastened the time at which the sun will never set on Ford factories...
While Mr. Ford was shipping duty-free Fordsons, General American Tank Car Corp. was employing another standard way of scaling tariff walls. This barrier, however, was not U. S. but German. Reluctant to pay the high duties collected in Germany on U. S. goods, the Tank Car company, á la General Motors, took over a German car company and organized it as a subsidiary...