Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention paid to wrapping them up in wrappers that are proof against the elements. The article advises U. S. firms to exercise the greatest care in choosing their representatives, as " one dishonest agent does much harm not only to his firm but to his country-more than enough to offset the work of 20 honest agents." It also points out that in the minds of the gullible " having no previous knowledge of Americans-the conclusion is, not that that particular salesman is a rascal, but that all Americans are rascals...
...record for sales of Studebaker cars. Studebaker disposed, during this period, of 38,211 cars, against 22,801 in 1922- an increase of 67.6%. Net profits this year were $6,170,971, against $4,069,848 in 1922. Increased cost of materials and labor is stated to have been offset by economies incident to the increased volume of production. All plants are now operating at capacity, with sales absorbing the current output...
...movement from farm to city was offset, however, by two compensating factors. One was the shift of about 880,000 persons from the towns to the land, and the other was the excess of births over deaths on farms, which reduced the net loss of the farming population...
...appearances, the consumption rate for the latter month has really been higher than that for January. The chief cloud on the cotton trade horizon just now is the impending strike of 36,000 employees in the cotton mills of Fall River, who have demanded a 29% wage increase, to offset the cut of 22½% made in January, 1921. This suggestion of renewed labor difficulties comes rather early in the current business cycle-it will be interesting to note whether similar strikes for increased wages will be a feature of the spring months, which are seasonably most favorable to such...
Leaving this aspect of the question, M. Roz pointed out that French opinion was moderate as well as unified, declaring that the various elements in the French nation served to offset one another, that French patriotism appreciated the patriotism of other countries, and that France allowed the spirit of intelligent criticism to dominate her politics as well as her literature...