Word: means
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monopoly provided for a continuation of independent operations, but stipulated that Russian products would be barred. The price of matches was increased from 25 pfennigs for ten boxes to 30 pfennigs, giving the independents larger profits, the government larger revenue from taxes. To Kreuger & Toll the terms mean a continuation of its German profits. To Matchmaker Kreuger they mean another triumph in the diplomatic relations that exist between Swedish Match and the rest of the world. Although Herr Kreuger has been Great Matchman for the past dozen years, it was only last year that alert U. S. investors first became...
...British continued to clamor for London, the Latins remained violently opposed. The delegates were also stumped to find an adequate authority for setting up the B. I. S. at all. Perhaps it would require a multilateral treaty among all the Powers concerned, and that would mean finding a weasel way around the expected unwillingness of the U. S. to sign. Questions involving the minor powers and personnel of the B. I. S. proved additional stumpers. Even hustling, driving Chairman Jackson Eli Reynolds opined that the bankers' work would be finished barely in time to be submitted to the politicians...
...another man) that the President had a sense of humor, but you 'couldn't count on it.' That he had it is made obvious by what I have already told. When it showed itself in words, his instinct for the close-fitting word was strikingly effective. Of a mean-looking poster inviting new students to the hospitality of a reception, he said, 'It has a very bleak appearance.' Of the magenta handkerchiefs bought for the crew in which he rowed, he said that, though they were the origin of Harvard crimson, the color was purely accidental; 'it might just...
...that didn't mean that it was permanently fixed. Accordingly for the Dartmouth battle loud speakers have been installed in sufficient number to make acoustics unnecessary, or at least that's what Frank Ryan, who is in charge of press box operations, is hoping. If he is right, it will be just one more step towards making the Stadium press box one of the best...
...This does not mean that any fixed agreement on disarmament has been made, because the two nations would certainly not commit themselves to details until the attitudes of the other powers had been obtained at a general conference...