Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Confiscation. "Under the Transportation Act the carrier is only a trustee for the excess over a fair return. Though in its possession,, the excess never becomes its property, and it accepts custody of the product of all the rates with this understanding...
...MIDLANDER-Booth Tarkington -Doubleday ($2.00). Mr. Tarkington has written the booster's epic. Dan Oliphant is the apostle of hustle. He is a gorgeous, epochal Babbitt. Unfortunately, he imports his wife from the East-a pretty, self-willed little product of civilization who hates the West fully as much as the West hates her. The book proceeds through pages of mutual irritation and tantrums, until, between the wife and the son who is like her, Dan is brought to an early grave just as the town, justifying his faith in its power of growth, vindicates his years of fierce...
...entirely new theory of origins known as the "planetesimal hypothesis," and largely developed by Dr. Chamberlin. The earth probably never passed through a gaseous state. Volcanic action is local and arises from special causes. The earth's heat is not a legacy of a white-hot star, but the product of transformations of substance deep beneath the crust. Life has been continuous through all geologic ages, and has not been periodically destroyed or renewed by catastrophes. Cold climates have probably alternated with warm ones, but there is no evidence for universal glacial or torrid stages in the earth's history...
...bright green covers?an excellent contrast with the orange coat of its English namesake, The London Mercury?Alfred A. Knopf presented for the first time The American Mercury with H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. Messrs. Mencken and Nathan have produced a different product, but of a sort allied to their last magazine The Smart...
...country of tomorrow will be the land of the children of today. The citizens of tomorrow are the product of the schools of today. Can anything ever be more important to this nation than seeing to it, through Government help, that its schools are making the best possible citizens of its children...