Word: inrushing
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...unseen commentator, The Plow That Broke the Plains begins with lush, billowy grass, ends with the hulk of a dead tree surrounded by sun-baked desert. What happens between is shown in the arrival of the cattle on the great 400,000,000-acre pasture of the Plains, the inrush of speculators in the wake of the railroads. A homesteader's plow bites into soil held together by the deep roots of prairie grass. Warns a voice: ''Settler, plough at your peril!" A grizzled farmer observes, without comprehending, the first sign of drought. Then comes a Wartime...
...chemicals, $12,000,000 in electrical apparatus, $3,000,000 in glass & glassware. That some of these products were not mentioned in the published summaries was taken to mean, not that they were omitted from the agreement, but that Canada wanted to avoid lobbying in Parliament and an inrush of goods for sale. U. S. motorcar manufacturers were delighted to learn that no agreement was reached increasing the "Empire content" of assembled products (in Canada, 50%; in Britain...
...tempt the able and more ambitious minds from the schools to seek training beyond the obligation limit of 14 years, and to make easier the elimination of minds not fit for the advanced work of the university, it is a wholesome movement. But its danger, too, is the inrush of the multitude which no man can handle, at least upon the high lands of calm thought and effective intellectual training...
...months ago, Dr. Fosdick became for a moment autobiographical, reminisced of his youth: "We roamed the woods, fished the streams, built our shanties by the brookside. . . ." Those, it might be said, were the old days when Faith was simple, when, despite the fast inrush of science and technology, the Church was a power in society. Today that power is everywhere threatened-not by persecution, but by indifference. In the most unchurched of educated communities in an increasingly unchurchlike world, Dr. Fosdick has caused to be raised on the banks of the magnificent Hudson a magnificent church. To voice its presence...
...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...