Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less interested in relieving the U. S. rich of a duty which they scarcely feel, than in neutralizing the public effect of duty increases on Pennsylvania-produced commodities. To cut the automobile duty would, psychologically if not economically, reduce Industry's protection, make Husbandry's protection seem larger. This Reed proposal seemed to illustrate what Senator Smoot had meant by Finance Committee gestures...
...about 36% of the company's total business. In 1922, entertainment totaled same $11,250,000, or about 80% of total business. Last year Radio Corp.'s gross sales were approximately $87,000,000, and its $6,000,000 income in patent royalties was slightly larger than its total income from communications...
...famine fear was the decision made last week by the Council of People's Comissars at Moscow to retain bread cards and the existing bread prices for at least another year. Under the present rationing system, in existence for more than six months, inhabitants of Russia's larger cities, even those of the grain districts, are allowed but one pound of bread -in some cases only three-quarters of a pound-per person...
...will buy advertising space. Feuds arising out of the Free Publicity game are often as not entirely within the publisher's province, between the advertising and editorial departments of publications. But when publishers as a whole feel they are losing ground to the producers, out bursts a larger feud in which the publishers assume a militant defensive against the producers. Such a position was taken last fortnight by the Publishers' Association of New York City, and reported at length in newspaperdom's trade weekly, Editor& Publisher. As is customary at such times, Editor & Publisher talked bitterly about...
...supplanted oats as chief transportation fuel, oil men began to experiment on the problem of forcing still more gasoline out of the crude oil. It was found that gasoline is volatile because its molecules are small, that gas oil and fuel oil are less volatile because their molecules are larger. It was also discovered that a heat-and-pressure treatment would break down the large molecules of gas oil and fuel oil into small molecules of gasoline. From two gallons of gas oil and fuel oil so treated, approximately one gallon of gasoline could be produced. This breaking down...