Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last spring in the War of Farm Relief, had laid it down as a means of pumping U. S. cash to the farmers. When they were driven out of the lowlands, they carried their Export Debenture pipe along with them in retreat. Now it was down again, by a larger vote than ever before...
...last year. Market (Chicago, No. 2 red) last week, $1.42 bu.; last year, $1.62. Progress has been slow on the Board's formation of a National Farm Grain Growers Association to stabilize prices. Reason: difficulty of securing adequate storage space. Cotton. Prices were down due to a larger crop than was expected. Latest U. S. estimate: 14,915,000 bales. Latest traders' estimate: 15,000,000 bales. Market (New York, middling upland): Last week, 18? per lb.; last year, 19 4/5? per lb. Within the month the Farm Board has advanced $7,250,000 to cotton growers...
...more clever and less offensive match than had been first suggested. Terms of the new monopoly provided for a continuation of independent operations, but stipulated that Russian products would be barred. The price of matches was increased from 25 pfennigs for ten boxes to 30 pfennigs, giving the independents larger profits, the government larger revenue from taxes. To Kreuger & Toll the terms mean a continuation of its German profits. To Matchmaker Kreuger they mean another triumph in the diplomatic relations that exist between Swedish Match and the rest of the world. Although Herr Kreuger has been Great Matchman...
...Ramsay MacDonald's recent visit to this country was made with a view toward discussion frankly and openly the points at issue with regard to an Anglo-American understanding," he continued. "Agreement in principle between England and America is merely prerequisite to a larger international understanding, and no international naval disarmament could be successful until the differences between the United States and Great Britain had been smoothed...
...Adam Leroy Jones, Columbia's Director of Admissions, had scanned the 1928 rolls of 216 representative colleges, reported that there was only a 2% student increase over the previous year. In 101 of the institutions having fewer than 500 students there had been a distinct decline. In the larger colleges (those of 3,000 and more), he found a less appreciable wane but in 22 scattered States fewer students were at college in 1928 than...