Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board's first problem was wheat. Here Nature had already started helping the Hoover administration. Last week the Department of Agriculture announced crop estimates. Forecast was a wheat harvest of 834,000,000 bushels (1928: 902,000,000 bu.; 1927: 878,000,000 bu.). Great had been the crop shrinkage since the spring estimates. Reason: Hot winds, drought, severe insect damage. Bad weather conditions in Canada and improved world demand brightened the outlook. The Chicago wheat pit reflected these conditions. Prices, on the rise for the last month, went higher. July deliveries touched $1.29 per bushel, a 35 cent advance...
...should'a thought they'd let an old man like you get off a bit earlier than this." But to Charles Prestwich Scott work was life. He became the Guardian's editor at 26. He set out to make it one of the world's great newspapers. He succeeded at no expense to his Liberal views or any cause he thought right...
Liberal though he was, in business he was keenly conservative. In Manchester, cotton city, he retained many a political foe as a personal friend by financing cotton interests, giving authentic reports of the industry. The late great William Ewart Gladstone was his close friend, as were Tory Stanley Baldwin, Laborite Ramsay MacDonald and, of course, Liberal Leader Lloyd George. But more proud is he of friendships among other journalists, those from competing and antagonistic newspapers. They call him "The Grand Old Man of English Journalism." Editor Scott still talks of the time Woodrow Wilson traveled to Manchester to pay respects...
...psychological significance whatever. It is a great, coarse object in a debased Indo-Chinese style, representing a creature half-Buddha, half-mummy, bearing upon her knee a corpselike child of enormous size...
Merger. In London last week, the Covent Garden Syndicate merged with the British National Opera, offspring of the old Beecham Opera Company, thus joining the entire operatic forces of Great Britain. The new Covent Garden Opera Company expects a twelve-month season in London and the provinces. Sir Thomas Beecham, who originated the idea, may be included as one of the conductors...