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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cream Separators. If valued at less than $50, these dairy appliances are now duty free. U. S. manufacturers asked for a 45% duty, cited importers who bring in Belgian separators costing $30 to sell to U. S. farmers at $107. Importers objected, made U. S. manufacturers admit that U. S. made separators costing only $41 are also retailed...
Politicians were less interested in the subject of the vote than its effect. It was the first time that the Liberals, who voted with the Government, had voted unanimously since the War. Experts prophesied a much longer Labor reign than the two years Premier MacDonald had asked...
...extension of his project would seem fantastic in one less able. It is no less than to throw his lines entirely around South America, splicing them near the continent's bottom by a lacet between Buenos Aires. Then his Caribbean knot will be a handle to the bucket that he expects to make of South American air transportation...
...Significance. Unlike England's Shaw satirizing human institutions, Hungary's Molnar satirizes human emotions. Since institutions change while human nature does not, lyric Molnar will probably "date" less than pedantic Shaw when later generations take an accounting. Like Shaw, like any playwright with broad genius, Molnar is interested in and can handle all manner of people?slaveys, socialites, policemen, princes?not for what they stand for but as kinds of people underneath. For the proud of this world he has a pathos of precision, for the humble, a tender irony, ridicule softened by tears. His many-mooded plays abound...
Most of the Association's investigations are more technical, less popular, than the standardization tin-silk tests. The Association has, for example, established a national safety code for elevators and escalators, has developed specification and rating systems for refrigerators; a standard for drafting room practice, and a standard for uniform proportions in bolts, nuts and rivets, are more characteristic undertakings. The Association is essentially a manufacturers' rather than a consumers' body; its purpose is to define, not to uplift...