Word: pocketsful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WINGS - Ethel M. Kelley - Knopf ($2.00). The caricature of a complacent male reviewing, through the smoke of his cigarette, his many loves . . . ladies, who for desire of his smug lips are hanging by the neck from his shoestrings, plunging to death from the bridge of his nose, smothering themselves in...
3) Fordney-McCumber Tariff. "I charge the Republican Party with this corruption in office. I charge it also with favoritism in legislation. In the passage of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act, imposing the highest rates and duties in the tariff history of the Nation, there was an unblushing return to...
If the poor farmers can find $25,000,000 in their overall pockets worn full of many holes during lean years,
Political Revolt. The insurgent-farmer move in politics will undoubtedly be affected by the uptrend which wheat and corn prices have taken in recent weeks. September wheat went up to about $1.25 a bushel. The Department of Agriculture reports from 11 countries which last year produced 64% of the world...
At a certain point, pumping oil out of old oil wells ceases to be profitable; the wells are in consequence usually abandoned. The State Geological Department of New York, however, claims to have perfected a new method of extracting the oil remaining in almost exhausted wells. The new system consists...