Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favor of it are the National Child Labor Committee, the American Federation of Labor, the Federal Council of Churches, the National Educational Association and numerous women's organizations, including the American Association of University Women, the National Council of Catholic Women, the National Council of Jewish Women, teachers, busi- ness and professional women, the National League of Women Voters, the General Federation of Women's Clubs...
WHITE CARGO-What happens to an exile when loneliness merges into mad- ness...
...doors went on being shaken.... All this passed in complete dark ness. . . . Hardly had a match which he held in his fingers gone out when he heard, close to his face, a loud burst of laughter which echoed over the whole house. He saw a white cloud in front of him, and two wisps of whitish light issuing from his nostrils. It was too much! The observer felt his courage giving...
Interlocking businesses-the trust idea-has always been a good way of making money. The publishing busi- ness has been witness to it. The Hearst publications are a good example. With several publications under one control, it is only natural that one of them should advertise in another. But the typical tactics of the trust idea in publications are to go beyond the mere exchange of overt advertising and to boost one another editorially. The Hearst papers do this continually. The result of such attempts may almost invariably be diagnosed by a glance at the "puff" which is printed...
...real sensations of the Spring has been the unparalleled swift ness with which the output of pig iron has been curtailed. From the depth of the 1921 depression, pig production climbed fairly steadily until May, 1923, when it stood at 3,876,694 tons. From there it slumped to 2,920,982 tons in December last, and then rallied to 3,-466,086 tons last March. April, 1924, however, showed a reduction to 3,233,428 tons, and new figures for last May reveal the astonishing drop to 2,615,110 tons. From an average daily output...