Word: ish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaving aside the defects of Mr. Merritt's power as a conjurer, the reader who is in search of an antidote to the present school of literary photography will doubtless enjoy "The Ship of Ish, tar." It is an adventurous glimpse at at a forgotten civilization which the author has convincingly re-created. There are to be sure, dull parts in the story, and at times the narrator loses himself and his reader in a labyrinth of suggestive but unintelligible passages. A glance at the jacket, however, is reassuring. There is no mention of subtle satire or of involved philosophical...
...ish of pride and conceit which accompanied this remarkable declaration...
...promising foreign markets is Great Britain. The removal of the duty on imported cars there should prove an undoubted stimulus to the sale of U. S. cars. Nevertheless, there are several difficult handicaps still to be sur- mounted by our automobile exporters. First of these is the high Brit- ish horsepower tax of almost $5 per horsepower-or $100 annually, even on a Ford. The tax yields the hard-pressed British Treasury about $65 million each year, and amounts to enough on each car to restrict con- siderably their widespread ownership. Moreover, gasoline retails at about 45 cents a gallon...
...Purcell, Chairman of the Congress, said in answer that the Council of the Congress had already decided to ask the Amsterdam Internationale to issue invitations to call such a conference at which Russians could be present. This was taken to mean that Brit ish trades unionism would cooperate with Russians upon an equal basis but would not permit the latter to dominate or dictate...
...proposed to increase the pensions of veterans and widows of veterans and nurses of the War of 1812 and of the Mexican, Civil, Indian, Span ish, Philippine and Boxer Wars. The proposed increase for Civil War vet erans was from $50 to $72 a month. The present outlay for pensions is about...