Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this, the patient is shoved in, head first, the rear door closed, and behold, the camouflage is complete; the old can jerks its way to the hospital; the rough riding is offset by the excessive heat on the patient's head from the engine...
...average price index of the 300 commodities included rose from 160.0 on May 1 to 161.4 on June 1. Yet this was almost entirely due to the sharp advance in prices of breadstuffs from 176 to 188 over the same period. This was more than sufficient to offset declines in meats from 159 to 158, in clothing from 184 to 181, metals from 133 to 131. Meanwhile, dairy and garden products remained unchanged at 121, other food products at 187, miscellaneous commodities...
These reports were calculated to offset the unfortunate failures of the Navy guns to hit air-targets off the California coast a month ago (TIME...
...handicaps to which I allude is the falling off of immigrant remittances to Italy from her sons working on foreign soil. In the past, these remittances constituted a distinct factor in your invisible international balance. May I suggest that you try to offset the loss from this item by increasing legitimate income from American tourists, who should be encouraged on a broader and more practicable scale than ever before to come to Italy and prolong their visits here...
...truth is that two contradictory forces are now at work in stocks, and at present just about offset each other. The bears argue, and with reason, that the recent price advance in shares discounted more than amply any likely increase in the earning power of most U. S. listed companies for 1925; and that the subsequent fall in prices represents an adjustment from over-optimistic hopes to saner and more realistic estimates. But the bulls still urge, and with equal force, the ease in money. The U. S. is piling up steadily huge amounts of capital which virtually seek investment...