Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is absolutely no legislative panacea for the distress now fairly common among American grain farmers, since any artificial upward manipulation of wheat prices will in the long run simply increase foreign production and domestic stocks, and ultimately force prices lower...
...whole series of extra profits is pyramided on the retail price. ¶Freight charges consume from 16 to 30 cents of the consumer's dollar (depending on his distance from the mine) so that a material reduction in the cost of coal could be brought about by lower freight rates. ¶I The average cost of mining a ton of coal increased from $2.23 in 1913 to $5.75 in 1923. ¶In 1923 labor cost constituted 71.7% of the total $5.75 ton cost. In 1913 labor cost 70% of the $2.23 ton cost. ¶There were 147,456 anthracite...
...years in their conjectures. All these estimates rest upon very slender assumptions, but that the age of the earth is to be reckoned in hundreds of millions of years is a scientific certainty. Lord Rayleigh's estimate, if sustained, also revises the probable antiquity of man and the lower animals, indicating that the earth's crust has been capable of supporting life at least 20 times as long as was thought possible before...
...unusually strong and tenacious will to gain her ambition, until the question has been raised on all sides: Has Ganna Walska a voice? The critics have replied again and again: Mme. Walska has no voice. She has some pretty but very small tones in her lower voice, good enough for small parlor singing, but her upper register is so weak and thin that when she essays the big and loud singing parts of opera she emits a shrill squeak. Nevertheless, the lady, with her enormously wealthy husband supporting her, has entered upon a new and spectacular campaign to achieve success...
...Army officers, after much practice, succeeded in passing a fresh supply of gasoline from one plane to another flying forty feet below at the same speed of 90 miles an hour. The fuel was passed through a 40-foot steel wire-incased rubber hose into the tank of the lower plane, and so perfect was the maneuver that not a drop of gasoline was scattered- and gasoline on hot exhaust pipes might spell disaster. The experiment was carried out in preparation for an attempt by Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richters to beat all endurance records...