Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple. The factors in the equation are undetermined variables rather than constants. . . . Every case bristles with controversial points. It so happens that the more conscience and intelligence a man puts into an examination of these questions, the less likely is he to "go along" with his colleagues. A report with split conclusions recently went to the President because the production costs in the chief competing foreign country were limited to the single factory that would permit inspection of its cost sheets...
Walker D. Hines, onetime Director General of the U. S. railways, now head of a commission which has just completed a survey of navigation conditions on the Rivers Danube and Rhine, arrived in Geneva where he is collaborating with Major Somerwell, U. S. A., on a report soon to be presented...
...incident created many conjectures. Some held that the June 25 report of a large crop had depressed cotton prices, enraged planters, stirred up politicians and frightened the Government employes making it; and that the latter were in consequence trying to right the matter by making an underestimate of the crop to raise cotton prices and allay political wrath. This is not the first time that political manipulation of the Washington crop estimates has been suspected and charged. However, the position of cotton prophet is a difficult one at best, and the crop itself is subject to sudden changes of condition...
...striking feature in the July 16 report was the poor condition indicated for the Texas crop; the condition figure for this leading cotton state sank from 64 in the earlier report to only 56 in the later one, due to the continuance of drought in the Southwest. Also, the yield per acre in pounds for Texas fell between the reports from...
...your issue of July 13, Page 16, under "Epidemics," you discuss the Epidemiological Report of the League of Nations Secretariat and state that "smallpox is less prevalent in the United States and Canada than ever before." The most recent of these reports available to us is that of May 15, which has recently arrived and to which I gather you refer. It reads in part: "The smallpox situation in the United States seems to have begun to improve: 3,412 cases were reported in 27 states during the four weeks ending March 28. ... It appears thus that the maximum incidence...