Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agriculture, in which farmers pit themselves against each other in the matter of six-month-old litters, of a ton or more weight. Last week the results for 1928 were announced. Farmers in 30 states produced 492 ton-or-more litters, Pennsylvania winning with 65. Idaho had the heaviest litter-14 piglets totaling 4,156 pounds...
...make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates a story such as: "When he was a child, the late great Labor Leader Samuel Gompers and his small cousin had to carry milk pails from the dairy to their farmhouse home. One day, the two boys quarreled about who should carry the heaviest pail. Neither would give in, both walked home emptyhanded. Spanked, therefore, and sent back for the milk, were Child Gompers and cousin." Then says Dr. Jones: "What would you have done?" Thereupon the children debate until they discover how Child Gompers and cousin could have settled their dispute, avoided their...
...there is no sin in the communication of truth in this way. Where the fact, however probable, still waits the confirmation of circumstance, to publish it abroad was impolitic, but that charge is the heaviest than can be made against the informant. The incident, has, however, a larger significance...
...baccarat. One season they lost three millions of francs to M. André Citroen, the "Henry Ford of France." In the novel Enemies of Women famed Spaniard Vincente Blasco Ibánez portrayed Athanase Vagliano, under another name, as the evil genius of the Riviera. As a matter of fact the heaviest losers to the Syndicate do seem to have been women. "Once," Vincente Blasco Ibánez has said, "I saw Vagliano win a million francs at a single sit ting." With one franc worth almost four cents, as at present, that would have been...
...Travel Air is second, if not first, in the number of planes produced by commercial factories in the United States. The Travel Air was recently recapitalized and is now rated at $1,875,000, the heaviest capitalized company limited to the production of commercial aircraft. Construction now under way will make it the unchallenged, greatest commercial airplane factory in the nation. . . . Various models ot Travel Air sell from...