Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government charges that the only patents still extant are trivial and relate only to details of the "cracking" process. Five companies, the Standard Oil of New Jersey, the Standard Oil of Indiana, the Standard Development Co., the Texas Co., the Gasoline Products Co., are accused of controlling these minor patents, pooling them, and licensing them to other companies under contracts which restrict trade and increase unnecessarily the cost of gasoline by heavy royalties. Forty-five companies are accused as "secondary defendants," as having entered the allegedly illegal combination by securing licenses to "crack" oil under these patents. The suits were...
...amendment to the London Traffic Bill was carried by the Opposition, to the discomfiture of the Laborites. As defeat was incurred on a minor issue, the Government did not resign although a few irresponsibles called loudly "Resign...
...general opinion was that Helen was not as fast as Suzanne but that she was a harder hitter. The American girl was also thought foolish to play in such an important tournament before familiarizing herself with the slower British balls and other strange conditions by playing in several minor tournaments...
...Mexico, staunch friend of Coolidge, was placed in charge of the drafting. From his Committee of some 50 members, 16 were chosen to do the actual construction. First brief public hearings were held. Then the Subcommittee drafted the document. Then the entire Commitee considered and approved it, with minor amendments. Then the Republican Delegates, in convention assembled, formally approved...
...bull market, and pointed out that recently we had had bull markets when money was high. Mr. Livermore still believes that there is overproduction in almost all industrial lines, and until stocks are sold and output sufficiently regulated, industrial uncertainty is bound to continue. Politics he considers of only minor importance as far as the fundamentals are concerned. To his mind, the curtailment of acreage now being accomplished by wheat-growers, whose output had been artificially stimulated during the War period, is symbolic of what industrial concerns must do. Nor, under present wage scales, does he think new outlets...