Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With the exhaustion of War stocks and the lack of adequate appropriations, military equipment is running low. There are not even enough horses and mules. Under the six-field-army plan, 548,892 animals are required. On June 30, only 48,597 were on hand, and 12,000 of those were too old for field service...
...Year 1925-26. "Certain regions have suffered reverses, notably the cotton states, whose principal crop, produced in exceptional abundance, is selling at very low prices. Parts of the spring-wheat states have harvested a poor crop. Generally speaking, however, the position of agriculture is better now than it has been in any year since 1920. Livestock raisers, dairymen and winter-wheat growers have earned good returns, and underlying conditions in the Corn Belt have improved...
...Arizona, New Mexico and Utah plateaux the Navaho Indians constitute a sort of peasantry, crowding into low, flat adobe shacks. Water is scarce and sanitation crude. That explains why so many Navahos have contracted trachoma, highly contagious eye disease. The eyelids become granulated and sticky. The victim squints, often becomes blind. Already one out of every four or five Indians has trachoma. Every third child has it, and at the reservation school at Fort Defiance, Ariz., every other pupil suffers. Aroused, Commissioner Charles H. Burke of the Indian Bureau, Department of the Interior, last week ordered the Fort Defiance school...
...expected to be the guides of the people in the solution of the political, economic and social problems that confront them. The abounding material prosperity of our country is justifiably a cause of gladness but must there not accompany that gladness a note of sadness at the undeniably low estate of our spiritual life? We have been celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia this year. It would seem that some time during its existence there might have been given in a striking and dramatic way an evidence of our appreciation...
...Japan's policy has undergone a radical change since 1919. Prior to that time, she was inclined to be imperialistic, but she low realizes that she is floating in the same boat with China; so since an mineralized China will be but a stepping stone to a subdued Japan. There is indeed, a strong possibility of an alliance between China, Japan, and Russia, in defense against Western imperialism...