Word: levels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract with the Soviet for from 80,000 to 150,000 tons of Georgian manganese ore per annum. 3) Reconsidering, the Finance Committee reversed itself, voted 5-to-6 to free-list manganese ore, with a saving...
...Umpire was a sterling Lancashire man, Mr. Justice Rigby Swift of the King's Bench Division of the High Court. Finally the Prime Minister declared that in case of proven need the Government would grant a "temporary accommodation" (presumably a Treasury subsidy) to keep wages at the old level while the industry is getting on its feet...
...clerk was Lewis Hatch, who became a great bibliophile and continued to befriend the young window-gazer. After a number of disastrous printing ventures, Cleland came under the tutelage and iron discipline of able Daniel Berkeley Updike, whose work at Boston's famed Merrymount Press raised the entire level of U. S. printing. The true printer's quiet love for arranging type and ornament has never left him-he still supervises the lettering and printing processes of all his work...
When newly-elected, oldish President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Philadelphia's gigantic Baldwin Locomotive Works sent $6,965,000 worth of locomotives on credit in July 1919, to the War-torn infant Republic of Poland, his board of directors thought keen level-headed "Sam" Vauclain had forsaken business for his favorite role of philanthropist. They worried. All Europe was financially unbalanced by post War deflation. Poland was still at desperate grips with the Red Army of new Bolshevik Russia. Furthermore, the Baldwin Locomotive Works was at the dangerous stage of turning from Wartime manufactures, productive...
...third and outer blanket, the Heaviside layer, very little is known, and that only inferentially. Pressure 100 miles up is calculated to be 1/300,000 of the pressure at sea level, practically a vacuum. Highly tenuous though that upper medium is, it is nonetheless dense enough to burn up meteors by its friction. Like the lower atmosphere it carries electrical charges. Proof of that is the great heights from which the curtains of Aurora Borealis, an electrical phenomenon, hang. If Professor Goddard, or anyone else, can learn the exact nature of that high zone it is conceivable that man will...