Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which AAA could dictate supply, if not demand. Western sugar beet growers received a fat quota and benefit payment from a processing tax; duty-free producers in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices which partly compensated for the reduced tariff advantages; and Cuba, assured of an outlet for about 70% of its sugar at profitable prices, was rescued from total economic collapse. Meantime the price of sugar in the consumer's bowl has risen about...
...division competed along the usual lines for the prize (a key to a sardine can) for telling the tallest fish story. In Los Angeles, Engineer L. M. Crow went up to the roof of a 14-story downtown skyscraper to empty and clean the water tank. He opened the outlet valve and out flopped a six-inch striped, small-mouthed bass...
...once a loving wife. But her husband died young, from eating a whole chicken cooked in white wine and three stuffed pigeons at a wedding breakfast, and Marlise was left a fairly well-to-do widow with a 14-year-old son. Her magnificent energy could find only one outlet in mid-19th Century Pargny, that of managing what her husband had left...
...with celerity by Mussolini and Laval, after which correspondents spent a frantic evening cabling summaries. In sum France and Italy agreed: 1) that Italy will receive some 58,000 sq. mi. of French African territory, also a share in the French-controlled strategic railway which dominates Abyssinia, and an outlet providing Italy with a port on the Gulf of Aden; 2) that Italy will aid France toward bringing Germany to a reasonable stabilization of her armaments and in inducing the Fatherland to return to the League; 3) that Austrian independence shall be guaranteed by a general pact of the Danubian...
...accusation of snobbery. The University authorities have chosen the first answer, silence; a few days ago we presented what seemed to us to be Yale's theory on the matter; now, stung a little by this most unpleasant of charges, we are tempted by the eye-for-an-eye outlet. We shall try to keep our shirts on, however...