Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition were the curse of their industry. If they attempted to get together and regulate themselves by production and price-fixing, they faced prosecution under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. If, as Mr. Morrow proposed, the Government should step into control of the industry, it could close down the smaller mines, guide the larger ones safely around the Sherman law to profitable mergers and otherwise act to conserve a natural resource. If soft coal mining were put on a paying basis, Mr. Morrow argued, prices would rise sufficiently to adjust miners' wages and thereby eliminate strikes. Secretary Lamont pondered...
...Waistlines even higher and smaller, causing corsetmen to take heart along with ostrich farmers...
...Although Corn Products Refining Co. was favored by the Government's decision that corn sugar may be used without labels, its half of $5,494,000 compared with $6,641,000. Its smaller rival (and recent legal conqueror) Penick & Ford showed a greater drop with $631,000 against...
...under par; Hagen, Cox and Armour were a stroke behind, Farrell two strokes. Hagen got another 68 the next day. Farrell was still a stroke behind him and Alliss, with a 71 for his second round, was a stroke behind Farrell. Cox, disgusted by a 39, changed to the smaller, heavier old ball, shot a 35 on the second nine. It was a cool, grey day. Henry Cotton, generally considered most formidable of the British Ryder Cup players, strapped two umbrellas to his bag in case of rain...
...salute by a plane in flight, another the wing-wag of greeting, another the ring-laying ceremony for a new dirigible (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). Picturesque is still another -the christening of a new balloon with liquid air. As in the case of the Graf Zeppelin and many smaller craft, it was planned that the Navy's great Akron should be named to the accompaniment of a flask smashed against the nose of her control car, a quick puff of white vapor...