Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover made his first use of the flexible provision of the tariff law. He proclaimed duty increases on milk, cream, flaxseed, window glass...
Building Materials. On farms are houses, barns, outbuildings, for which a husbandman must buy bricks, cement, lumber, glass, shingles. By its committee the House was asked to increase tariff rates on these building materials. From the free list brick was made dutiable at $1.25 per 1,000. A tax of 8¢ per 100 Ib. was laid on cement. While fir, pine, spruce and hemlock were retained on the free list, other kinds of lumber were put under the tariff, with cedar shingles paying 25% ad valorem. The Oregon shingle industry asked for protection against Canadian imports. Chairman Hawley...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh ("Good Will") has been stained in glass for a window of the Trinity Methodist-Episcopal Church of Springfield, Mass. Other large figures in the window: John Wesley ("Evangelism"), Bishop Phillips Brooks ("Prophecy"). Other smaller figures: Columbus, Bach, Shakespeare, Frank Billings Kellogg...
Suddenly little glass balls, hundreds of them, hurtled from the gallery and burst among audience, musicians, actors. Rose a towering, awful stench. Choking and clenching their noses, the Poles fled from the opera house, to be met outside by German Nationalist students who clenched clubs...
...Museum. But last week, as it stood on display in Christie's London auction rooms, many a Britisher went for a last look. Everyone supposed, of course, that "some rich American" would carry off the treasure. Even Edward of Wales strolled in, peered at the exquisite white and blue glass scene of the marriage of King Peleus and Thetis, Queen of the Nereids. It was made known that he agreed with connoisseurs and critics that $500,000 would by no means be an unfair price. The auction took 35 seconds. Starting at $50,000, the bid rose...