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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freight Rates. The farmers' demand for lower freight rates, which was the one direct and easy way they could see of saving themselves money, will also be affected by higher prices. With economic pressure lessening, it is only logical that the demand should grow less insistent. More directly important in its bearing is the attitude which the Interstate Commerce Commission has taken on account of increased grain prices. The Commission had been considering whether freight rates were not too high in relation to the value of farm products hauled. Prices having risen, the Commission decided that freight rates need...
...that post that his reputation began to grow. He conducted a great number of important cases for the Government before the Supreme Court. The terseness of his eloquence, the cogency of his argument made him talked about...
...PoilyaiHM and PollyaMU Grow-Up. *The Friendly Terrace books, the Peggy Raymond book...
...wise precaution to have the safety belt well buckled when flying upside down, for plane and pilot may suddenly part company. To perform a series of loops, when the trick is once learned, is but a question of endurance and of a head that does not grow dizzy when earth and sky seem to revolve in a gigantic circle before one's eyes. Still, very few pilots could emulate the exploit of Madame Adrienne Bolland, French aviatrix who last week looped the loop 212 times, beating her own record of 98 loops-for-women. Only Maynard, famed...
...then, stepping westward, he crossed the Missouri River on the ice. On the far side was Kansas. There he got a job at $12 a month, as a farmhand. Four years later he had a farm of his own. There he stayed for twelve years, making things grow. Then he undertook to edit a livestock journal, and the publicity which followed gradually began to make him - Foster Dwight Coburn- famed. From 1894 to 1914 he was Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture- an elevated post! But he knew his business. He was offered an appointment to a vacancy...