Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owners could produce crude oil on an average of 15 kopeks a pood, after paying 20% taxes on profits, 5 to 45% royalties and higher wages for workmen. Now, he continued, the production of crude oil costs double, despite the confiscation of property, no taxation or royalties, lower wages to workmen and lack of strikes, which hitherto were frequent...
...Present production costs in the Grozny oil fields are lower than before the War, while in the Baku fields these costs are about equal to those of 1913. The output of gasoline from crude oil has been increased from the pre-War figure of 0.4% to over 0.7%. Deterding also mentions the Soviet coal industry. It will be interesting to learn that coal production for the year just ended was 39% higher than the figure given by Deterding...
...conceived the idea of having students of the Law School serve the needy members of the public by establishing a law office to which people could go without charge. Before this time the various members of the Bar had been able to see that the rights of the lower classes were protected, but with increasing specialization among lawyers, this has become impossible...
Captain J. L. Reid '29 has been showing fine form in practice this Fall and is expected to lower the race record if the course is not too heavy from the recent rains. Leslie Flaksman '29 and W. E. King '28 are the only other men on the team who ran against Holy Cross last year...
...almost any evening except during the mid-semester hysteria is a scene of quite repose. When the lights momentarily go down as signal for closing they conceal possibly a score of souls in utter darkness. In the cubicles of the stacks there are others, but the General and Lower Reading rooms exhibit the hurly burly of a deserted village. Only the Farnsworth Room may be said to be adequately occupied...