Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board wanted for the Leviathan (TiME, May 5). However, in awarding the contract for the reconditioning of the President Buchanan, the Shipping Board trod on the toes of Brooklyn by awarding the contract to the Newport News Shipbuilding Company instead of to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which made the lower bid. Accordingly Mayor Hylan (who lives in Brooklyn, ''Bushwick Section") announced: "If Chairman Lasker expects to get consideration around the Harbor of New York, he's got to give consideration to the working men of Brooklyn." All action on the application to lease Pier...
...happen; on the other hand, the renter must not be forgotten. As the speculative builder loses, the tenant will benefit. Rentals in most parts of the country are now very high, even compared with other prices, and business cannot proceed on a sound foundation until they rest on a lower level. Too much curtailment of speculative building now would therefore prove just as undesirable as a continuance of building under present conditions...
...unquestionable precision. Five-sixths of the plates have been measured at the present time, and inasmuch as no great difference of displacement is expected in the remainder of the plates, the Lick Observatory will not again verify the theory at the total solar eclipse which sweeps Mexico and Lower California next fall...
...affair, Henry Ford would be the logical man for the throne." The Ford administration would economize by dispensing with Cabinet and Congress. " Transference of the Ford organization to Washington could be accomplished in a single section of a Pullman car, with one in the upper and two in the lower berth...
...movement for universal suffrage is still being pushed energetically by the Seivukai (majority) members of the Japanese Diet. In the Lower House a resolution was introduced urging abolition of class distinctions, especially with regard to that social group known as the Eta, which numbers 3,000,000 people...