Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan for tax reduction, in detail, cannot be made out until the Treasury is satisfied how much revenue the present act will bring in. It may then be made known not as another "Mellon Plan," but be allowed to transpire as the product of the House Ways and Means Committee. In that way, the political consequences, the violent effort of party opponents to destroy anything that savored of the administration's name in the last tax bill, may be partially avoided...
Sackcloth and Scarlet. The story of the product of the open spaces lured East and left with the acute fish-out-of-water feeling in the midst of what is called Society is not new. To strengthen it, the product and the girl who lured him are visited by the stork. The girl has a suspicious cough and a virtuous sister. The Westerner becomes a sturdy Congressman. You can figure out what happens for yourself. If you can't, don't bother to attend. The mystery isn't worth...
...about 80,000,000 Ibs. of artificial silk were produced, compared with the 70,000,000 Ibs. of the natural silk. For many years, the output of natural silk has been stationary, while that of artificial silk has increased by leaps and bounds. At present, the artificial product sells for about $2.00 a pound-less than a third of the price of worm silk...
...Artificial silk is made either of wood pulp or of linters (the tiny ends of cotton formerly wasted). The manufacturers of artificial silk have united on Rayon as a general trade name for the product...
...necessary to its very existence. But it must be remembered that college education is distinguished from education in general by the term "higher," which is its peculiar characteristic. And the very fact that there are masses and classes distinguishes socalled "education" as a general term, from the peculiar product of the colleges. Their function as colleges is to dispense a species of education above the capacity of the masses...