Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commission, an eminent economist and writer, attacked the use of the Commission for partisan purpose. He told a gathering of economists in Manhattan: "The temptation will always be present to use it as an instrument for supporting and carrying out a given policy-one of high duties or of low ones, of protection or free trade...
They wanted to answer "Yes," but their respect for their reputations kept them from committing themselves. What they were strongly inclined to believe was that the problem of surplus agricultural products and consequent low returns to farmers had become predominant. Already that issue has involved the dormant tariff issue...
...fixing.or its equivalent?some sort of export device to get rid of the farm surplus?the proposal of the farm bloc. They argue that prices are low because all the farm produce in which there is a surplus is sold at European prices. They say let a barrier be put up to maintain a high price in the domestic market, and take a loss if necessary on the surplus sold abroad. To this the Administration answers: If the farmers profit on their product, they will produce more; the surplus will grow larger until the loss on the surplus will...
Best of everything was Mr. Gershwin's music. Three songs, "Looking for a Boy," "These Charming People" and particularly "Sweet and Low Down," will rattle in your ears from every phonograph and loudspeaker for many months...
...page of yesterday's Boston Herald. A telephone call, which specified house and street, but not the need, sent an engine of the Atlantic fire department clanging out into the snow. The destination was quickly attained, but, before the men could inquire into the cause of their summons, a low wail descended from a snowy tree. Like Androcles, the fire fighters hesitated. But the cry, like the unspecific lament of a hoot owl, did not betray whether it sprang from bird, beast, or fish. Yet it darted so pitifully down that the perplexed rescuers raised a ladder against the tree...