Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Balkans & Near East. From Constantinople came news of "furious gales" over the Black Sea and record low temperatures in Asia Minor. Balkan temperatures sank to four below zero in Belgrade and; even lower in other parts of Jugoslavia. "Tall" but circumstantially repeated; was a story of how the dead, frozen bodies of 17 Jugoslavian soldiers were discovered "clutching their rifles and in perfect marching order . . . half buried in and supported by the snow...
That point-money, dollars, pesos-is the pivot around which President Calles has swung away from Mexican ideals of retroactive confiscation and toward U. S. ideals of justice for U. S. interests in Mexico. Once justice was done, once Lower Manhattan was appeased, it would be possible to tide over the Mexican debt payments...
...with the new year-not before they had been denounced by former Mayor Hylan and by President Stewart Browne, of the United Real Estate Owners' Association. "An injustice to real educational leaders, a robbery of the public schools," said Mr. Browne, irate. Former Mayor Hylan complained that the lower paid teachers were unfairly treated...
Chevrolet Prices. Prices are lower than for the older models. Compared with those for the new Model A Ford, they are, f.o.b. Detroit...
...last week, when he found a way to mask failure behind a dazzling cabinet decree. This document, issued with a triumphal flourish, establishes the lira on a gold basis? not, however, at par (five lira to the dollar), but at 19 to the dollar, the new ratio being slightly lower than the ordinary quotation of the lira on international exchange in recent weeks...