Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal's policy of lowering tariffs by reciprocal trade treaties. In Washington, President Roosevelt had upped the tariff on Japanese cotton cloth by a thumping 42%. Certain results of this move will be to put more money in the pockets of U. S. textile millers, make U. S. consumers pay more for nightgowns, children's underwear, men's handkerchiefs. A possible result may be the loss to U. S. cotton-growers of an appreciable part of their best market. The President's explanation of this set-back to his trade-expansion program was that he proposes...
...rapidly solving the all-important question of food in war time so as to have abundant stores in case of another emergency like the submarine blockade of 1917." Ports. The Port of London Authority, busiest in the world, announced a $60,000,000 program of harbor improvements on the lower Thames...
...womb, caused by an ovum which started to become a baby but failed; 2) a pigmented spot (Anglo-Saxon mael) in the skin. According to Dr. Affleck, Mole No. 2 "may occur anywhere on the surface of the body, in the mucous membranes of the upper and lower ends of the digestive tube, and in the eye." It may be covered with coarse hairs. In color it ranges from light brown to black. Color is due to a pigment called melanin...
First Class does not include Pullman rates, which have, however, also been reduced to about two-thirds of their former price. A lower to Chicago, formerly $10.13, will...
...second successive Sunday, the playboys of Plympton street indulged their exuberance and held up traffic for an hour--between 5 and 6 o'clock--while they poured a water barrage down on any unlucky passer-by. Lowell and Leverett Houses concentrated on the lower end of Plympton street, while the two divisions of Adams House took care of the upper end. Col. Apted collected more than 40 bursar's cards; the Cambridge police threatened prosecution for four students caught with water pistols...