Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marrowy oxtail joints" used to describe a well-known soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile advertisement. "The velvety clutch responds to the merest pressure. . . . The plant but positive gears engage silently". One nationally known electric firm prints well rounded essays to describe its product, and the Ann Sawyers and Well-Dressed Men gossip like Pepys and Evelyn...
...high surtax rates are a product of the war. They came with the War Revenue Act of 1917. In 1918 they were increased to their highest point. The Revenue Act of 1921 reduced them to a maximum of 50 per cent, or a combined normal and surtax of 58 per cent, but even this approximates the war levels...
...write successfully for boys. If so, here's broadcasting the fact that such a talent is badly needed right now. It may be that some at present mute and inglorious Oliver Optic will heed. But one warning is necessary. The author, whoever he be, should try his product on the dog, on a perfectly ordinary boy to whom Shakespeare is merely required reading and Ivanhoe gets off to a dull start, before he sends it to a publisher...
Formerly all crude rubber was obtained from the rubber trees by coagulating the sap or " latex" with either smoke or chemicals; inevitably this method left impurities in the product, and sometimes when acids were employed valuable qualities of the original latex were destroyed. But by the new process, the latex is sprayed into a snow-white mist which, placed in contact with superheated air, is deprived of its water, but nothing else. Thus " sprayed rubber" is absolutely pure virgin rubber, remains dry indefinitely, is much stronger than ordinary "crude rubber " and-unlike the latter-is completely uniform in quality...
...Professor C. M. W. Sprague '94 of the Business School spoke on the general effect of recent legislation on the credit system of farmers. The trouble with the present system, he said, is that land is taxed according to its capitalized value instead of the income derived from the product, and this capitalized value instead of the income derived from the products, and this capitalized value is often unjust. Too frequently the land's worth is judged by a comparison with similar farms in the community, with the result that great injustices are committed unwittingly. This theory, he said, might...