Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preserved the five cent fare in New York travel, thus keeping from the Wall Street barons upwards of $3,000,000,000,000 excess profits. This issue was captured by Senator Walker, who pointed out that the Mayor of New York is powerless either to raise or lower the fare...
Among the leading 12 U. S. cities, Boston alone showed a slight increase. No change was apparent in Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis during the past year. But in Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, the trend toward lower rents was unmistakable...
...next day the Government issued a decree forbidding opium smoking in coffee houses and other public places. It is said that only the lower classes will be deprived of their personal liberty by this decree...
...Cooper plan transcends such feeble efforts as far as the locomotive outclassed the wheelbarrow. It calls for great sea walls, with water gates to shut the 100 sq. mi. of Passamaquoddy Bay into an upper pool. Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more. Across the inlet between the two pools thus formed, from Eastport* (island) to the Maine mainland, a dam and power house would be built. Operation would be as follows: on a rising tide, the gates to the upper pool would be opened to admit the sea. At flood, the gates would close...
...equipped with magnifying submarine telescopes instead of windows ; with revolving saddles, one above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable for lowering them all. Lest this cable break or tangle, an electric switch in the "bell" would disengage its prodigiously weighty lower shell, allowing the upper half and its occupants to bob upwards in safety. Three electrically driven propellers would maintain the "bell's" vertical suspension in this emergency...