Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall approve the tariff bill. . . . This tariff law like all others . . . contains many compromises. . . . No tariff bill has ever been . . . perfect. It is bound to contain some inequalities and inequitable compromises. ... A new basis for the flexible tariff . . . has been incorporated in this law. Thereby the means are established for objective and judicial review of rates...
Stalin and Hoover. If U. S. businessmen should refuse to sell Red Russia what she wants, gladly would British, German or even Japanese businessmen fill her orders. Christian, capitalist and patriot though he may be, the U. S. businessman has this perfect alibi far his traffic with the Reds...
Speaking of the cinema, the show at the University tonight is just about perfect for a bit of light mid-exam period refreshment. The western picture is thoroughly entertaining and all real Vagabonds will be completely delighted with Miss Janet Gaynor in her latest smile...
...Backbone of the Fleet." The gentlest of swells and a light air from the west made it a perfect review morning, far happier than the morning in 1927 when Calvin Coolidge was first squeamish and had to sit down, then frankly seasick and had to lie prostrate below while the Fleet roared salutes for his momentarily unmanned office. President Hoover stood under the eight-inch guns of the Salt Lake City-10,000 tons, last crisp word in U. S. cruisers-and peered closely through binoculars at the trim masses of war machinery which soon came plowing past. From...
...quarter, torpedo planes approached wing-to-water, theoretically launching torpedoes at the dreadnaughts from close astern, wheeling back through the smoke to safety when their work was done. Planes catapulted from the battleships sought to repel these two types of attack but were greatly outnumbered. Though obviously favored by perfect weather and the arbitrary plan of the "battle," the Navy's overhead forces had easily "stolen the show." As a final touch, a plane from the Saratoga equipped with a special hook flew up to the silvery dirigible Los Angeles which had been idling aloft all day, and attached...