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Word: lowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble. The soft coal industry, unlike the hard coal industry, is only partly unionized. Thus, the operators in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, who employ union labor at $7.50 per day, have to compete with companies in West Virginia and Kentucky, employing non-union labor at wages as low as $3 per day. With Great Britain mining its own coal again, the union operators will doubtless close many a mine in 1927 unless they can arrange a new wage basis to compete with non-union operators. Soft coal production capacity is 50% greater than normal consumption and rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COAL: Bituminous Boys | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Princesses, low at your feet we'd fall, (Our friends all tell us we're too discreet...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/25/1927 | See Source »

Among the sportier introductions was the low-hung Six Cylinder Jordan (green finish with khaki top). Chevrolet had a-"Sport Cabriolet" which is a coupé of roadster type: an enclosed front compartment with a rumble seat in back. The Chevrolet line is now finished in grey and uses disc wheels. Chevrolet advertising spoke of "the most outstanding automotive success in recent years." For other cars, other merits were advertised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Manhattan Show | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...their answers in written form, took the answers back to the U. S., pondered them well. Then, for two years, Studebaker engineers and body designers pored over blueprints, utilized proving grounds-and produced the Erskine Six. It is a small car (no smaller than an Overland Whippet). It is low-hung; has a small, high speed, high compression motor; "2 1/3 litres," the advertising says - which is the Parisian way of saying that a motor is 40 horsepower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Manhattan Show | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...confronted with the problem of selecting a fitting representative to send the first low down that has ever been conveyed by entirely underground means to Chicago. For this office we humbly dominate one of Lampy's treasury department...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

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