Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these directions, at the same time it is not expected by most people that buying from any of these three sources will prove as heavy this year as in 1923 or 1924. The railroads were in sufficiently good physical shape last year to handle record traffic with about 10% surplus capacity unused. Automobile output is not commonly expected to exceed this year the records of the two previous years. Finally, construction also seems to be showing a sagging tendency in volume of output...
...order to prevent abuse of these products, it is necessary to exercise control of the production of raw opium in such a manner that there shall be no surplus available for non-medical and nonscientific purposes...
...Great Britain would be superseded and, secondly, that if and when payments derived by Great Britain from European War debts and reparations were sufficient to provide for the full discharge of British obligations toward the United States oyer the full period of such obligations, including payments already made, any surplus would be used to diminish the burden resting upon Great Britain's Allies...
...bureau of Stanford University points to an entirely different cause. The international price of wheat has been higher than the American price. Until December the rates on Canadian and Argentinian wheat shipped to Europe was above the price in the United States. Wheat shortages in Europe have been drawing surplus crops from the rest of the world. If the European crops are heavy next fall, the American price will recede from the present high mark. The explanation of these fluctuations is due to economic factors...
...college heavyweights will be given their first chance this year to get rid of surplus flesh when Mr. N. W. Fradd throws open his 4 o'clock class to men above 185 pounds in weight...