Word: inrushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inrush of foreign cars was anticipated by the U. S. motor industry in the wake of such a tariff change, which, many thought, would produce a favorable psychological effect abroad, might even relax tariff barriers now raised against U. S. motor exports. But what many an independent motorman feared was that big U. S. concerns-Ford and General Motors -already equipped with factories abroad, would produce cars by cheap labor for shipment back to the U. S. duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them...
...endeavored to stop the inrush of water with our hands, but too late...
...vital problem of transition between school and college still bulks large. Despite occasional flashes in the plan of reform, no vigorous constructive action has ameliorated the present crying need. Now is the time to hew out some new policy with which to deal with the inrush of next fall's Freshmen who may otherwise receive the usual laissez faire reception...
...legitimate purposes but for the illegitimate purpose of packing as many members surreptiously inside their doors as their physical limitations would allow. . . . I have seen this House practically empty when the bells began to ring and then turned into a riotous sort of market place by the inrush of members for the purpose of finding the Government napping and turning it out on a stupid issue. I am not going to go out on any such issue...