Word: glut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Justice William Howard Taft as the ablest lawyer in the world, it would be possible for him to bring to the office of President qualifications rarely given the ordinary individual. The wave of unrest in the agricultural and the industrial centres of the land may be traced to the glut in the market, resulting from inability of the American Public to absorb the output of America...
...that an author may be allowed to delve into the realms of indecency as far as is necessary to portray the whole truth of his picture. But Mr. Sergel harps on this theme and its attendant circumstances for 176 pages--and does not reach the truth even then. His glut of torment is avowedly only to set the stage and fix the characters in their primary position, but even with this achieved he tells but half the story...
...nitrogen-fixating bacteria will be developed which will quadruple crops, and by the resultant fall of prices, agricultural States will be temporarily ruined. The same agents, introduced into the sea, will cause an enormous glut of fish as food...