Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prices. "Very little change has taken place in the general level of wholesale prices during the past four fiscal years. The absence of any sharp upward movement has shown the healthy character of our business activity and its freedom from the dangerous boom psychology. On the other hand, no sharp declines have reflected business depression or a general change in the relation between the volume of currency and credit and the volume of business...
...although there are still weak spots. There was very little change in the situation, considered as a whole, during the crop year 1925-26. The output of the farms was substantially the same as the year before and the average prices of farm products also remained at the same level...
...Great Lakes, objects to the diversion of water from Lake Michigan on the following grounds: 1) The Chicago Drainage Canal has reversed the courses of two rivers and disrupted the drainage system of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River; 2) It has lowered the water level of the Great Lakes, spoiled harbors, endangered shipping; 3) It has vexed Canada, who of course has a right to protest interference with the Great Lakes...
Illinois and the southern states contend: 1) That the Drainage Canal is necessary to the sanitary disposal of Chicago sewage; 2) That the stopping of the diversion would have little effect on the water-level of the Great Lakes; 3) That the Drainage Canal is a vital link in development of a St Lawrence-Great Lakes-Mississippi-Gulf of Mexico waterway which will be a commercial asset to both the U. S. and Canada...
...these forty pages Mr. Hall describes the fate of "The Forgotten One," an Englishman who chose almost absolute solitude on a tiny island as the goal of life. For some years he was happy, but of a sudden his evesight failed; madness followed. Mr. Hall reaches here his highest level...