Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owned International Paper & Power Co. This gargantuan corporation controls under long-term leases, or owns outright, forest land equal in area to New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Despite the enormous consumption of newsprint in the U. S. and Canada, paper production is still greater. Prices are low. For the past year the I. P. & P. and its smaller competitors have been paying provincial governments toll for paper made from timber grown on Crown land, sold at a wholesale tonnage price...
...price as to fix it," said he somewhat ruefully. "It may not be possible to get $60. However, that is the price on which Canadian sentiment is fixed, and we will do our best to obtain it. We have recognized that the price of $55 is too low...
...party, Dr. Curtius entered the German cabinet in 1926, served hand-in-glove with the great foreign minister until his death. Whilst Stresemann strove for peace by diplomacy, Curtius, as Minister of Economic Affairs, patched up the first post-War commercial treaty between France and Germany. He is a low tariff man, a quiet optimist, a vigorous advocate of more and still more loans from abroad, "loans which fertilize German industry as the waters of the Nile fertilize the parched soil of Egypt." As a "borrowing man" he enjoys the thoroughgoing contempt of Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, always...
...traditional sequence of Turkish days of the week. Even simpler than daylight saving, the Kemal plan is open to only one objection: possibly Allah will not like to be worshipped on Jehovah's day. Until popular feeling on this Godly point can be gauged, Mephisto Kemal will lie low...
...same who nursed Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau back to life when he was shot during the peace conference, made a low reply...