Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chile and Peru have both prospered in the past 40 years. Both nations hailed the Hoover solution joyously. Bolivia's sorrow was that she has been cut off from the sea for 46 years and now seems sure to remain so.
In the face of these expert opinions, Scientist-Financier Adams remained a dissenter. He had read in foreign scientific publications about the success some Swiss engineers were having with Alternating Current, which requires, as schoolboys know, much less initial impulse and much less bulky lines for transmission over long distances...
Then, actuated as much by scientific curiosity as by financial prudence, he set off for Europe to see for himself the status of Alternating Current. Before going he ended all his Edison connections, to remain unprejudiced in the controversy.
By this time father was a rattled wreck; He didn't drink, he had anxiety, My mother, everything; he couldn't solve The money matter. My brother had flown off To work his way through School. And there I was In rooms that fronted on a business street...
Last week, bound to Denver, President Weber of the Musicians' Federation jumped off and on his train anxiously at several cities, to ask questions, give advice, promise what he could. Small, German-born, energetic, "Joe" Weber used to be an able windman in the Cincinnati Symphony. The Musicians'...