Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tariff: 100% high tariff doctrine with this original addition: "Other countries gain nothing if the high standards of America are sunk and if we are prevented from building a civilization which sets the level of hope for the entire world...
Oceanology. The hottest part of the Atlantic Ocean runs about 350 miles (5°) north of the Equator, from Africa to South America. Carribbean waters are just as warm (80° F.). Almost as warm, and much higher in level than the open ocean is the Gulf of Mexico. The combination of Gulf temperature and level with the West Indies volcanic action and the twirling of the Earth sets a current of warm water running north along the American coast to Newfoundland-the Gulf Stream. A wall of cold water separates the Gulf Stream from the North American continent...
Royal coachman, black gnat, grizzly king, professor! If Calvin Coolidge never again has sport he will at least remember the summer of 1928 as the time when he learned his fly-book by heart, casting on the brown Brule stream. As July petered out and the level of the waters dropped a little in the dry weather, the Brule's inhabitants grew hungrier and hungrier. There came an evening when the President canoed home to Cedar Island Lodge with no less than 26 trout. This was one more than Wisconsin's legal limit but Wisconsin took no action...
...lira on a basis of gold. ... He has immortalized his name." The new Finance Minister, Senator Antonio Mosconi, a Venetian aristocrat, was next informed that he is expected to immortalize his name rounding out a fecund cycle bounded by Six Points: 1) "Immutable maintainance of the present level of stabilization (i lira equals $.0526)." 2) Total curtailment of foreign borrowing by the State, plus drastic censorship of private Italian loan flotations abroad. 3) Stern coercion of Italian tax evaders and delinquents, "who are the vilest leeches sucking the blood of human society." 4) "Resolute avoidance of any increase in taxation...
Memorable was the July 19 balance sheet of the Bancitaly Corp., showing six months' earnings of $35,233,552, more than Bancitaly has ever earned in a full year. Holders of Bancitaly's 5,200,000 outstanding shares may expect, if the same level is maintained until January, that the corporation will have earned $13 on each share, twelve percent on the present market price...