Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoover Increases. President Hoover sought to ease the tension by exercising the flexible provision of the present tariff law and raising the duty on three farm commodities. He raised: 1) Milk from 2½ cents to 3¾ cents per gallon (the new bill-5 cents per gallon); 2) Cream...
The same morning at Strasbourg, France, the gasoline tank of a motor bus exploded in a car barn, covered ten workmen with flaming gasoline; three soon died; others were expected to.
The same morning at Cornish, N. H., there was a kerosene explosion in a one-room cabin: two young mothers, three infants and the cabin were incinerated; an adolescent youth escaped, gravely burned.
Their accomplishment, reached and tested episodically last year, is a nine-cylinder, radial, air-cooled motor. It lacks, of course, the sparkplugs, wires, magnetos, etc., essential in spark-ignited gasoline engines. A pipe line distributes oil under pressure to each of the cylinders. The present machine delivers 200 h.p., and...
There were 206 cases in 46 registering states, whereas the same week last year there were only 155 cases. In 98 cities the comparative numbers were 46 and 25, a greater increase than the Government estimate.