Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What caused widest concern among farm cooperative leaders was the revelation by Chairman Legge of how his Board would handle future wheat loans: The Board would advance its funds to the National Farmers Grain Cooperative at 3½% which in turn would farm out in smaller loans to individual cooperatives, adding "a small additional charge," presumably 2% or 3%. In effect the cooperatives would be paying the same rate-6%-as private commission men for cash. Chairman Legge carefully explained that whatever profit the national cooperative made from the additional interest imposed would in the end go back...
...Bethlehem Steel no longer so pre-eminently first and second largest steel companies that the position of third largest carried with it only a statistical distinction. Last week a portion of the merger rumors came true in the formation of Republic Steel Co., Eaton consolidation which, though still considerably smaller even than Bethlehem Steel, moved indisputably into the third position and contained the potentialities of a still larger company wth the possible addition of other Eaton companies as yet uncombined...
Mozart's A Major Sonata, Schumann's Arabesque, Brahms' Variations on a theme by Paganini, smaller quantities of Chopin, Debussy, Albeniz-such was the varied course which Iturbi chose to run. Because he had played Mozart with the Philharmonic, his audience was not surprised to hear him endow the Sonata with a cool, fresh beauty seldom equalled. The Brahms technical difficulties were topped at a speed which was never bewildering. Debussy, despite its mistiness, had structure, clarity...
...British and U. S. warships, says Jane's, are stodgy, orthodox. Pioneering in naval construction has passed to the smaller naval powers: Japan, France, Germany. The latter's "pocket battleship," Ersatz Preussen," is quite the most remarkable warship produced since...
...that with which the H. A. A. News is distributed at the Stadium. This would prove of great assistance to the prospective athlete who arrives five minutes before the hour with a nickel and four pennies, as well as to the opposite type of individual who never has anything smaller than a five-dollar bill...