Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost tearful were the pleas for protection voiced to the Conference by many an industrialist delegate, including one from Sheffield who cried: "Forty-three more of our blast furnaces have been shut down in the past twelve months! If the steel industry isn't safeguarded, I predict that not a single blast furnace will be operating in England by the spring...
Presently Bat'a shoes began to move on endless belts past workmen, each of whom performed a single operation. If the belt hurried a little, why so did the workmen-and were paid according to the number of shoes they produced...
...This already has happened in the past. It may happen again. Indeed, it will happen again, not between cities and the country, but in an infinitely greater order of magnitude. The whole white race may be submerged by the colored races, which multiply with a rhythm unknown to ours...
...Muskogee, Okla., John Coffey, a farmer, wished to smoke a pipe and lighted a match. The match broke and fell into a tank of kerosene. The kerosene began to burn and a cat walked past it. The cat's fur caught fire and Farmer Coffey chased the cat. The cat jumped into his haybarn and the haybarn burned down...
...Sherman Corporation, Boston engineers, financiers, is making a study of U. S. mergers of the past few years and is hard put keeping track of the multitude of new ones always forming. The years 1927 and 1928 will probably go into financial history as the real beginning of the vast industrial-financial drift now going...