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Word: leveler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business will not prove short-lived. In manufacturing industries the physical volume of production is now slightly greater than it was at the end of 1919 or the beginning of 1920: but if allowance is made for the growth of the country, production has not yet quite reached the level of three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREDICTS CONTINUED BUSINESS EXPANSION | 3/26/1923 | See Source »

...there is some indication in trade circles that recent price advances are already checking buying. This is natural enough, with pig selling at practically $30 per ton, or about $11.58 above the level of a year ago. In the present type of steel market, the first indication of an important curtailment of either production or prices will, of course, be seen among the independent companies, rather than with the more stable and less speculative Steel Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: Iron and Steel | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

...nearest cotton futures have fluctuated around the high level of 31? recently established, with speculative dips and spurts of small scope. The Census Bureau's report of domestic consumption as 567,000 bales for February compares with 610,000 for January. When the fewer days in February are taken into consideration, it will be seen that despite superficial appearances, the consumption rate for the latter month has really been higher than that for January. The chief cloud on the cotton trade horizon just now is the impending strike of 36,000 employees in the cotton mills of Fall River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: Cotton | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

...readin yer 8 moist Havurd poets for de foist time an on de level guy its de woist hokum I ever seen. Theys each one twict as bad as the rest. Its lousy dats the woid lousy. Over the radio from 33rd Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/22/1923 | See Source »

...treaties. The act of respect which the British people are paying him, by placing a tablet to his memory in Westminster, suggests how much the highest type of diplomacy can affect the good feelings of one nation toward another. The whole foreign service should be kept a the same level; no political favoritism should interfere with choosing the best-fitted man for any post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN FOREIGN FIELDS | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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