Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editors opportunities for promotion, and the higher offices afford valuable executive training. Work in each department also provides candidates with a chance to improve their ability in writing, photography, or business. In the department last named candidates will make numerous acquaintances with Boston and New York advertisers which should prove profitable if they later intend to engage in business near those cities...
...Government ordered the landing of 100 sailors at Ceiba from the light cruiser Rochester to protect foreign lives. At the same time, the U. S. intimated that no rebel government would be recognized, even if it were to prove victorious over the Government forces...
...automobile manufacturers, provided with facilities for enormous output, are carefully studying foreign markets these days as an outlet for their production. One of the most promising foreign markets is Great Britain. The removal of the duty on imported cars there should prove an undoubted stimulus to the sale of U. S. cars. Nevertheless, there are several difficult handicaps still to be sur- mounted by our automobile exporters. First of these is the high Brit- ish horsepower tax of almost $5 per horsepower-or $100 annually, even on a Ford. The tax yields the hard-pressed British Treasury about $65 million...
...technical equipment which peculiarly fits Mr. Gilbert for the important and responsible work which lies ahead of him, I feel that the Reparations Commission and the Governments are to be congratulated upon having secured for the post a man whose known breadth of vision, ability and wide experience will prove an invaluable boon to the great work which means so much to the world...
...came to the United States for two reasons. First, to prove to my own people that my defeat at the hands of Jack Dempsey had not made a coward of me. That's what they seemed to think-yes, even said. It broke my heart. I am not a coward. . . . The second reason ... is to take Harry Wills to task-in the ring-for a published statement made by him after seeing me defeat Jess Willard [1923], in which he said . . . that he could have whipped both Willard and myself in the same ring. I resent that...