Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foot Shelf. Europe mocked, still mocks, the kind of thing this university-maker next did. Yet the popular outlines and abridgments of many subjects that followed his selected "five-foot shelf" of indispensable classics from the world's literature (The Harvard Classics) have been partly responsible for a level of mass culture in the U. S. higher than that to be found in any other land...
Even the Interstate Commerce Commission poked into Pullman Co. finances. Its investigation report last week showed that the company had reduced its rates 20% in 1911, that it had increased them 20% in 1920, that in reality, "the general level of charges is no higher today than it was a half century...
...many articles analyzing Florida]. "Those who do not like Gory Cables can go to hell. Fifty million dollars have already been spent on this Elysium. Most of this has been for publicity. ... On the highest point, which is approximately five feet eight inches above mean, low down, dirty sea level, they are going to build a beautiful early Spanish missing-style $10,000,000.35 insane asylum. They got the idea from Dr. [Roach] Straton when he was down here following vice when it moved south for the winter...
...which most automobile casualties come about. Not, at least, in New York State, as was shown in a survey of New York's 47,128 accidents during 1925, wherein 1,981 persons were killed and 54,398 injured. The most dangerous setting is this: A straight, level road, dry and hard.* Clear weather. Between five and six of a Saturday afternoon. You will run down a pedestrian about three times as often as you will hit another car. He will have been walking, running or playing in the street twice as often as just crossing it at an intersection...
...Potash Importing Co. of America, the U. S. agents of the German participants immediately sprang to defend his principles: "The German Potash Syndicate has absolutely prevented any possibility of the potash market being cornered to the detriment of the farmer. Prices have been maintained at the lowest level consistent with the costs of production and marketing. . . . The syndicate has never restricted potash production...