Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lower middle column, speaking of the Moffat road (Denver & Salt Lake), you say: "To climb James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades. ... It was . . . and is ... the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
...then, it be admitted that by "most economical" is meant that plan which will cost U. S. and British taxpayers the least total sum, the U. S. proposals seemed to fulfill that claim. They consistently envisioned both a smaller number of ships and a lower total tonnage than the British proposals...
...Lower California, in the desolate volcanic waste near Punta Baja, Edward H. Davis of the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), found vast caverns decorated with mural paintings. In one cave the ceiling bristled with arrows shot into it at least 500 years ago. Carved stone vessels and long-walled lanes through the lava floes indicated high culture among the Cochimi, Guaycuru and Pericue Indians whom Spanish travelers reported finding on that lonely coast in the 16th Century. Ethnologist Davis judged that these tribes were gigantic in stature...
...Federal Reserve Board last week gave permission to the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank to lower its re-discount rate from 4% to 3½%. This means that banks of the Tenth (Kansas City) Federal Reserve District which belong to the system, can borrow money for 3½% and consequently can afford to loan money to individuals and concerns at a relatively cheap rate. The lowered rate will have one effect of helping the farmers of the Tenth District harvest and ship the season's crops advantageously...
...days last week by the prison authorities who had reason to think that if Horatio Bottomley was released on the date previously announced he would be met at the prison door by a huge admiring crowd of onetime soldiers, race-track folk, stage people and vague legions of "the lower classes." To prevent this scandal, the prisoner was hustled out of jail and despatched to his Sussex home in a discreet motor...