Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street who is finding legalized drinking too expensive is going to get a break. We will soon have ready some whiskies to sell to the consumer at $1.50 a quart, exclusive of state taxes. Both straight and blended whiskeys will be produced at this price level...
...money-making proposition, no matter how much will be distributed to charities. Further, the men who fell all over themselves before this hullaballoo have betrayed the trust placed in them if we realize that Columbia University has been a leader in placing intercollegiate football on a sane and decent level...
...order to put good liquor within the reach of everyone, and in order to settle the hash of the bootlegger for good, the government must see to it that taxes are reasonable and that prices are maintained at a fair level in the future. It is does not do this, it will be making Repeal the same sort of empty word that Prohibition was, and will have encouraged and fattened its parlour pet, the criminal...
...Bassett went on to explain the necessity of regulating the height of buildings in crowded districts of large cities. Buildings that will bring the maximum of light and air into the streets and to the occupants of the building itself and which will leave open spaces above the ground level for the use of both the owner of the building and his neighbors are the type that are needed today, said Mr. Bassett...
...lecture by describing how towers, instead of being exceptional, have become the main feature of the building. As examples he pointed out such structures the Empire State and New York Life buildings in New York, which represent the best adaption of the tower. They are low at the street level, and ample light and air are insured for the tower residents as long as the building endures...