Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James S. Peters of Manchester, Ga., President of the Georgia Bankers' Association: " Wages must necessarily increase to par with those of the North and East, with proper allowance for the difference in the cost of living. . . . The emigration will continue until the oversupply either brings down the wage level in the North and East, or the undersupply here justifies an increase...
...exhibitions. The municipality was at its wits' end?not how to accommodate the throngs?but how to keep down the price of beer. For the Brewers' Association had agreed among themselves to triple the price of Münchener, and not until the Bavarian government intervened was the normal level reaffirmed. (For Ludendorff's speech see page...
...Czecho-Slovakia toward Hungary. After he had finished his opponents said: " No one should know the disposition of his country toward another better than Dr. Benes, but when he resorts to choosing facts calculated to reveal Hungary in the most odious light, his assertions sink to the worthless level of propaganda...
Mining companies of Butte, Mont., in cooperation with Daniel Harrington, supervising engineer of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, have reduced temperatures of over 100 degrees F. in low-level workings by as much as 15 degrees, through scientific ventilation. Temperatures in the depths of the earth increase from natural causes, but added to this the Butte mines have to contend with fires which have burned for many years in worked-out regions, one continuously since 1889. These fires feed on timber and combustible sulphides, and burning laterally and vertically, have so heated the adjacent rock...
...aggressive Mr. Wannamaker, President of the American Cotton Association, has again launched his favorite project-to withhold the cotton crop until it reaches a price level where farmers can make what he calls "a legitimate profit." This suggestion is extraordinary enough, coming as it does in this day of practically 30-cent cotton. But the means by which it is to be realized are more extraordinary still. Mr. Wannamaker's "plan" is to have individuals, clubs and corporations buy many bales of cotton, store them in warehouses, and borrow on the warehouse receipts at banks for a period...