Word: ruinously
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...seek government regulation. When it is forced upon them, as upon electric power, they buck and fight vigorously. Oil. lumber, shipping and agriculture, on the other hand, have begged and received government aid because they were economically sick. In the Interstate Commerce Commission the railroads have a protection against ruinous competition which they would not give up for anything. When it was making good money, the bituminous coal industry bridled angrily at the mere suggestion of Federal regulation...
...draw a sharp distinction," said Preserver Kennedy-North, "Restorers often ruin perfectly good pictures. For example an enormous number of paintings are being ruined by the application of new backings with glue when they are being rebuilt. This practice is absolutely ruinous because the glue attracts dampness.* Let me point out to the chemists of the world that there is an excellent field for them in the search for a non-hydrous glue." Mechanical-minded Professor Koegel of the Karlsruhe Technical High School came forward with a new method of registering the authenticity of paintings: two wafer-thin sections...
...crusade" in Idaho to Washington to attend this meeting. Ohio's crop loss was estimated at $200,000,000, Kentucky's at $100,000,000, Missouri's $115,000,000. Husbandmen, despairing of carrying their stock through the winter without fodder, were selling their cattle at ruinous losses...
Leandro Arpinati, Fascist Under Secretary of the Interior, proudly announced in the Chamber of Deputies that by canceling the licenses of 40,900 drinking places during the past eight years, he had not only furthered Italian sobriety, but had rescued the temaining publicans from ruinous competition...
...business recession changed his belief that: "It is unnatural to curtail production of anything. . . . Any plan to manipulate conditions and retard production is inadvisable if not ruinous. . . . Machines eliminate drudgery. . . . Strange as it may seem, the more machines in operation, the more men at work. There are more men working today by 50% than at any time in the history of the world, and the standard of the worker has been raised to a much higher level...