Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ten volumes of stenography and a ton of documents had been accumulated up to last week by the Federal Trade Commission in its investigation of the business and political methods of interstate public utility companies, ordered by the Senate last winter. President Coolidge, whose appointees the trade commissioners are, said last week that in his opinion the ton and the ten volumes contained nothing requiring federal action, that state regulators had power to deal with such utility practices as might seem suspicious in the evidence. Chief among the trade commission's discoveries which have excited vigilant patriots...
...After ten years of beating, Congress last week transformed a monster sword into something faintly resembling a plowshare. It was the War Department's $160,000,000 project on the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Ala., a power dam to generate electricity to fix atmospheric nitrogen to make nitrates to make explosives to blow up the Enemy...
...constitution calls for reapportionment every ten years. The last reapportionment was made on the basis of the 1910 census...
...Newcomerstown, Ohio, one Jack Russell conducted himself disorderly. Mayor Marion Mercer fined him $10 and costs. Then the Mayor said that Jack Russell could have his money back if he would rid Newcomerstown of ten of its "hundreds" of disorderly dogs. Grinning gladly, Jack Russell went down the street and began killing dogs. Dog-owners of Newcomerstown, irate, said that Mayor Mercer had been more disorderly than Jack Russell or the dogs...
...Michigan team, undefeated by Conference aggregations during its spring campaign, is relying on Bill McAfee to hurl it to victory. He is credited with the outstanding performance of pitching 23 runless innings in succession against Big Ten nines. Asbeck, giant Wolverine moundsman who succumbed to the onslaught of the Crimson sluggers in the first encounter, may also be called on for duty...