Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agriculture-Better prices tending up to the general level of commodity prices...
...reasonably sure-, at any rate not 39 ft. affect and over. Probably, with a cricket ball, slightly heavier yet with no more atmosphere resistance, I might have thrown even farther. Field day exercises were held on the old state fair grounds, now Camp Randall, the throw down the level racetrack, on a day devoid of wind, in the presance of a large assemblage. If this record ever has been equaled by amateur or collegian, I never have heard of it. However, unlike young Osler, I never slaughtered a pig with a stone behind the ear, though in boyhood at Baraboo...
...just the opposite tendency has actually been experienced. Instead of corporation taxes being raised, they have been slashed to the low level of the Delaware corporate imposts. The public utilities have been left alone. Instead of harrying the railroads in the state, legislation was actually passed to help them issue preferred stock. The rails are responding by undertaking new branch lines through the state which will have a great bearing on real-estate values in interior localities...
...will not be necessary to excavate the entire depth of the basements. In addition to the dirt which will be secured from the excavation work it is estimated that a large amount of earth must still be hauled in to raise the grade to the proposed 18 foot level...
...annexation of Austria. I am sure the Senate agrees with me that such a flagrant violation of existing treaties cannot be countenanced." Russia. "What we have seen can fill us with joy, for we have seen that Communist experiment has totally failed, because Communism, which tends to level all men down, is opposed to life and the nature of man, who is, by instinct, individualistic. Russia now follows an economic financial policy not much dissimilar from the ones obtaining in capitalistic countries. Russia now has stock exchanges in operation and money which is quoted on these stock exchanges. Besides...