Word: items
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vigilant patriots last week pointed with pride to two news items recounting their country's advancement in transportation. Each item mentioned a new "biggest." They were...
...page 54 of the June 24 issue, TIME, is an item of Ethel Barrymore's new play...
Sugar. Senator Smoot accepted a sliding scale tariff for this most controversial item in the bill. Because his State, Utah, is a great producer of beet sugar; because the Mormon church, his church, is vitally interested in beet sugar, the sugar schedule was to have been Senator Smoot's well-protected pet. That he favored a sliding scale which he admitted would produce rates lower than those proposed in the House bill (3? per lb.), made even his Democratic opponents gasp in astonishment. They accepted his plan as another indication of the receding high-tariff tide. When pressed...
...continued depression. It made no money and showed no signs of ever making money. Owner Ford made it pay. He electrified 263 miles of it. He raised salaries that were accustomed to being reduced. He speeded up the freight service (passenger traffic has never been an important D. T. Item). He shared stock with employes and excused them, as far as possible, from working on Sundays. Generous, Mr. Ford was also astute. For the more efficient became the railroad, the more rapidly Ford coal moved north from Ironton and Ford autos moved south from Detroit. And, though the selling price...
...first test of strength-the vote on the Borah resolution-the coalition was beaten, 39 to 38. But 38 represented the virtual rock bottom of the coalition's strength which could be augmented by minor compromises, when the item-by-item voting comes. Senator Borah, in a thunderous speech, predicted the cement duty would add null to the cost of road building, denounced the glass schedules from "eyes to mirrors," vowed he would rather see no bill passed than that produced by the House...