Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action on the Gooding Bill to prevent railways from charging lower rates on longer than on shorter hauls...
...roll call on which the vote was 64 to 18 against the repeal. (Went to the President.) ¶ Passed without a record vote, after two days' debate, a Rivers and Harbors Bill carrying $40,000,000 for improvements after the Gooding amendment to prohibit railways from charging lower rates for long than for short hauls and the Fernald amendment providing for the purchase of the Cape Cod Canal had been defeated. (Went to conference.) ¶ The proposal that the U. S. join the World Court came up and was tucked away again with hardly 100 words spoken...
...Down on lower Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, rain drizzled upon converging churchgoers. The First Presbyterian Church took in all it could; 500 were turned away...
...production does not continue to increase, there is strong likelihood that recent raises in oil prices will be maintained and even be increased, despite considerable political protest in Western and Southern states. New oil fields, rather than political activities, seem at present the best possibility as a cause of lower oil prices...
...Tests made with 124 elementary classes of second, fifth and seventh grades to compare small with large classes of pupils, showed that the large classes were practically as efficient as the small. The most benefit from small classes was derived in the lower grade -P. R. Stevenson, of Ohio State University...