Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judges grew prematurely alert, fingered their watches. Up the river, belching like twin-snouted dragons, sloshing along at an uproarious nine-knots-per-hour came the doughty Sternwheelers Tom Greene and Betsy Ann at the grim finish of a 21-mile race upstream from Cincinnati. Long before they could see which was ahead the crowd could hear the roar of the laboring engines. Children cringed, fearing an explosion. Old rivermen felt young again at the familiar sound...
...Greene, 25, master of the ship bearing his name is descended from a long line of rivermen. His first mate, the only woman on the Ohio river to hold a pilot's license, was his mother...
...House tariff bill took a long step in the direction of substituting U. S. Valuation for Foreign when it proposed that the President be authorized to shift tariff appraisals from foreign to domestic valuation when conditions warranted. Senate Finance Committee Republicans took their problem with them into executive session, wrestled with the evidence spread between the two valuation systems, pondered the merits of each...
Question: "Is it true . . . that manufacturers care nothing about the rates in the Tariff Bill as long as they can get what they want in the administrative sections...
...manufacturers have long clamored for a U. S. Valuation system, largely because it would mean much higher duties, hence greater "protection." They have claimed that imported goods are grossly undervalued on the foreign-valuation basis to get the benefit of cheaper ad valorem duties...