Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Baker has been a pioneer in the field of dramatic teaching. All over the country, in every field of dramatic production, men who have felt his influence are working today bringing American drama to a higher level than it has ever reached before. It seems incredible that, when all the reward that such a man asks is to be given equipment so that he may do better work, that equipment should be withheld from him. "Hermann Hagedorn...
...index is based upon a percentage scale, the average prices for the year 1913 being taken as 100. As between the seven groups above enumerated, dairy and garden products at 118 are nearest pre-War prices, while clothing at 187 is farthest above the pre-War price level...
...greatest efforts, however, must be made in order to reach this goal. Besides the question of a higher level of the budget, the question of the balancing of the actual revenues and expenditures must be investigated because the Government now admits that the preliminary budget shows an increase of the deficit, which can only become worse so long as the present crisis continues. Therefore, reforms and economies must still form an important role in Austrian state economy...
...Pennsylvania buyers are lowering their bid for crude oil, and a lower price level all along the line is expected in some quarters. Only by such means, it is argued, can the large stocks of refined and crude oil be successfully disposed...
Nevertheless, the present high prices are a huge incentive in the attempt to overcome these difficulties of producing cotton abroad. Unless the American planter can overcome the ravages of the boll weevil, increase production and thus lower prices to something nearer a normal level, he will in a few years begin to encounter stiffer foreign competition than ever before in cotton production...