Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General protection against unfair foreign competition, owing to lower wages, longer hours or depreciated cur- rency, to any industry which can prove itself substantial and efficient...
Over various cities in Spain appeared airplanes?not an unusual event, that. Some of the machines, however, had painted on their lower wings the word "Liberty"; others were labeled, with big letters, "Republic of Spain." These planes had been sent from "somewhere in France" by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, author, auto-advertiser, professed enemy of the King of Spain. They had come to Spain to drop their cargoes of Ibanez manifestos, the original of which was published a few weeks ago in Paris (TIME...
...Rhodes went in with them. Soon he controlled a huge combination ? De Beers Mining Co., British South Africa Co. and Gold Fields of South Africa Co. He became Prime Minister of the Cape Town Colony, which he governed as a benevolent despot, even strengthening the British grip on lower Africa with a vision in his head of "Africa British, from Cape Town to Cairo...
Widener Library, beginning on December 20, will be open from 9 to 5.30 o'clock except on Christmas day and Sunday, while the Lower Reading Room will close at 1 o'clock on Saturdays. On New Year's day only the General Reading Room and the Farnsworth Room will remain open. Books from the reserved shelves may be taken out at 5 o'clock on week-days...
Widener Library, beginning on December 20, will be open from 9 to 5.30 o'clock except on Christmas day and Sundays. The Lower Reading Room will close at 1 o'clock on Saturdays. On New Year's Day only the General Reading Room and the Farnsworth Room will remain open. Books from the reserved shelves may be taken out at 5 o'clock on week days...