Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smoot scale would be $3 per 100 lb., the bottom $1. Cuban imports would still benefit by a 20% differential. When sugar was exactly at $6 per 100 lb. the tariff would be $2.20, the present duty, with Cuba paying $1.76. The duty would decline as the price rose to $7.20 per 100 lb. at which point the minimum rate-$1 per 100 lb.-would come into effect. The duty would increase as the price fell below $6 until at $5.20 the maximum rate of $3 would be levied on world imports. Sugar tariff changes would be on a weekly...
...After all, Abie's Irish Rose only ran five years on Broadway. Surely the Walker Follies, which has no plot, cannot hope to equal that record...
Last week Charles Stevens, U. S. dry agent, set out with friends to raid the farm of Tom Chandler, 43, north of Poteet, Tex. The farmer, sitting on his front porch, rose, picked up a gun. ''We're federal officers and you're under arrest," called Agent Stevens. Leveling his rifle at the farmer, Stevens started to rush him, tripped over a sand rut, pulled the trigger, shot the farmer through the heart, dead. Stevens had no search warrant. His raid netted a still, 19 barrels of mash, 28 gallons of whiskey. He was held...
Into a harbor in the Azores last week sailed the Carlsark, 46 ft. ketch. Above the gleaming hull rose four tanned sailor-men-all from Cornell University. Carl L. Weagant, last year's football manager, of Douglaston, L. I., was the skipper. Said he: "My crew did not suspect my intention of crossing the Atlantic until we were halfway to the Azores, seven days...
Aimee Semple McPherson, marcelled evangelist, asked the members of a Denver audience who were willing to give $1 to combat Satan to stand up. Only a few rose. "Play The Star-Spangled Banner," she told her bandsmen. All rose...