Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time, the Canadian Gov ernment permitted U. S. agents to stand on the Windsor, Ont., liquor export docks as a means of checking rum-running to Detroit, which cut the flow to" the low ebb of 500 cases per day. This, Canada considered, was part of "neighborly co operation," whereas the I'm Alone case involved a major international principle...
Farm. One-half of the total number of U. S. farmers make less than $800 a year. The profits of only one-quarter exceed $1,200 per year, the Department of Agriculture's "minimum wage" for a farm family. Reason for low income: For every dollar the consumer pays for food, about 30 cents gets back to the farmer, 70 cents going for transportation, marketing, etc. The fanner gets no more because, ambitious, he grows too much, puts it up for sale. With all farmers doing this, a surplus is created, depressing prices. The farmer markets his goods individually...
...grey harbor waters, usually strident with ship whistles, were muffled to a low-breathing hush, which was broken heavily by a 21-gun salute from Governor's Island. At the French Line pier in Manhattan, La Tourville docked gingerly, took aboard great men in black clothes to stand, lost in their own thoughts, about the casket. On a mulberry-colored cushion rested the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh stood there, his shoulders drooped in memory of Le Bourget, Paris, 1927. At sharp noon a bugle shrilled. Fifteen wiry French sailors lifted the coffin...
...Barjot would generate his power in Polar regions where water under the ice is 32° F. (freezing) or warmer and the air above 20° below zero or colder. He would pump sub-ice water into a surface tank partially filled with butane or some other hydrocarbon of low vaporization point. In the tank the ice water would freeze and release it? comparative heat; the heat would volatilize the butane; the gaseous butane would run a low-pressure turbine. To condense the butane to liquid, after it had rotated the turbine, he would pass it through brine made from...
...Institute conducts free venereal examination clinics, which Chicago's wanton females and lickerish men have learned to visit when uneasy. Institute examiners send the diseased to their family urologists or, if poor, to Dr. Schmidt's Social Hygiene League where fees are low and where invalids can get expert treatment from him, Dr. Rachel Yarros (Hull House) and others. The League gets $12,000 yearly support from the Institute...