Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...controversy between anthracite miners and operators (TIME, July 20 et seq.) was the scratching of seven days off the calendar. The present wage contract in the anthracite industry expires on Aug. 31 and, unless the miners, with their demand for higher wages, and the operators, with their demand for lower wages, reach a compromise by that date, a strike will begin on Sept...
...Judge Gary?but it was not he. Who else of the notables? A merchant prince? A captain of industry? A potent segnor of the law? None of these. Judge Gary and his associates centered their selection upon a young man, only 29; a member of the New York Assembly (lower house of the legislature...
...duty-free importation af considerable quantities of frozen meat constitutes an alleviative measure for the consumers. In the case of grain, the tariff is of a transitory nature and is considerably lower than the tariffs of pre-War times...
Bond prices have apparently reached their peak, and banks are steadily liquidating their holdings in preparation of rising interest rates and lower bond prices this fall...
...Sounds like a big mosquito," grumbled the other. Realizing that their bivouac was near the route of the New York-Chicago Night Air Mail, she sat up to look, but even as she stared into the vague heavens, the buzzing stopped, the eye winked and began to circle lower and lower until it came to rest at the other end of the field...