Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early years in the Reichstag Stresemann was quite the blustering Junker that he looked. He spoke loud and long for Germany's need for territorial expansion, he obediently voted every increase in Germany's Imperial army. Throughout the War he was one of the Kaiser's most devoted followers, defending indiscriminate submarine warfare against the attacks of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. With the Armistice and the disastrous Treaty of Versailles a sudden change came upon him. Always acutely practical he realized that right or wrong in the War, Germany was beaten, that her only hope of salvation...
...circle or two to release the sombre sounds of Schumann's Manfred overture and in Manhattan an important audience settled itself ecstatically to hear Arturo Toscanini conduct the season's first concert of the Philharmonic-Symphony. The occasion itself, anyone would have said, demanded more preliminary pomp. Long has the Philharmonic angled for an option on the services of Toscanini. Only this year has he come to begin the season and to conduct the major portion. But when last week his audience stood proudly to greet him and began the expected ovation, the little man quashed it with...
...White Motor Co. is located at Cleveland, its products sell from $1,545 to $8,000. The headquarters of the Coca-Cola Co. are in Atlanta, Ga., its products sell from 5? to 10?. Yet these two $50,000,000 companies have long had something in common and last week that bond was strengthened...
...hands had reached out, stopped one blade and grasped at the other. First and most destructive of the industry's two menaces has been the price cutting war between manufacturers, begun in April, 1928 when the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. reduced the price of Camels from the long established rate of $6.40 a 1,000 to $6. Quick to follow were Liggett & Myers with Chesterfields and Piedmonts, and the American Tobacco Co. with Lucky Strikes. The Lorillard To bacco Co., faced with the heavy expense of introducing Old Golds met the reduction only partially, cutting its price...
...could be specified; instead, the law provided that waste should be limited to a "reasonable amount" to be determined in each case by State Oil and Gas Supervisor R. D. Bush. Waste can be limited by "recycling" the gas into the ground, thereby sustaining the pressure and guaranteeing a long, steady but comparatively slow flow of oil; by capturing the gas and extracting its casing head gasoline contents; by selling the gas to public utility companies. Large companies, like Standard Oil Co. of California, have a number of years engaged in "recycling" and in reclaiming casing-head gasoline. Recently some...