Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican platform for 1924 was something Democrats looked forward to with avidity. Said they, not only to themselves, but aloud in the public ear: "Coolidge and Congress have been at war. If the platform endorses Coolidge, it must repudiate Congress and vice versa?either way it will be meat...
Just what is happening to the sun is meat for speculation, but most authorities are agreed that there are unusual doings up there. Last year, Dr. C. G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institute, announced his measurements of the diminution in the sun's heat. His results have been independently corroborated by Herbert J. Browne, a Washington meteorologist, who finds that the solar constant, the unit of measurement of solar heat, has declined from a normal of between 1.94 and 1.98 to 1.90 in the past two years. This has lowered the temperature of the open oceans all over...
...Adopted a resolution calling upon the Treasurers of the Republican and Democratic National Committees to furnish information on the contributions of the "Big Five" meat packers in political campaigns since...
...activities and powers of the Federal bureaus" have increased; yet it is obvious that more regulation by the government has been made necessary by the flagrant abuses which sprang up during the brief period when competitive activities ran riot. The cases of the Standard Oil Company, the Chicago meat packers, and the railroads are too recent to have been quite forgotten; and they serve to prove rather pointedly that the "spur of competition", for which Mr. Mackay pleads, leads but to monopoly and its evils. His case rests upon the assumption that the private entrepreneur bitterly pressed by keen business...
...attempt is to be made to induce Parisiens to eat chilled meat. Once before it was tried without success and experts declared the new experiment is predestined to failure. The fact is the Parisiens prefer snails and frogs...