Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rubbernecking," what travel agency can defend itself against the not overwhelming percentage of humanity which you have in mind? The necks of travelers "rubber" and otherwise, are as their Creator made them. Why place the blame lower? Why set it on the shoulders of a single travel company...
Last week there was considerable agitation in England over the terms of Premier Baldwin's coal subsidy (TIME, Aug. 31). The operators, supported by Mr. Baldwin, declared that the articles of the "coal truce" now in force permit them to lower the wages of certain miners, in accordance with the variable base rates of the 1924 wage agreement, which is now continued under the subsidy. The miners, headed by "Emperor" A. J. Cook, incendiary laborite, obtained what they considered expert legal opinion, to the effect that no wage reductions of any sort are admissible under existing agreements...
...prices promptly close. Last year 6,500 carloads of potatoes went into starch, but high-potato prices this year will presumably leave starch-makers none at all. But the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is not worrying. Potato farmers in Maine are profiting under present high prices, even though output is lower. When they start spending the proceeds, the Aroostook expects very good inbound freight...
...members of the three lower classes interested in competing for the literary. Art, or Business Department should report at this meeting...
Last week chuckling Communists drained the Samovars of Moscow's lower depths in steaming content. Wide faces waxed into full-mooned laughter. Behind the relentless mask of the Third International, beaked sardonic visages relaxed in a sour smile, as the Pravda, famed Bolshevist sheetlet, brought them welcome tidings of nauseous conditions beyond the seas. A joke, a Gargantuan jest, had just been found to be on someone else...