Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ten men have ten farms. Each raises pigs. Their common market is the village around which they all live. The pig prices they will get from the villagers depend on three things...
...eliminate the last factor, the ten pig men cooperate. They agree on a pig-selling period. To protect themselves further from each other, they agree that, for each pig he sells, each pig man shall put a certain fee in a common fund. At the end of the pig-selling period, portions of this fund shall be advanced to any of the ten pig men who have had to sell their pigs, at home or in some other village, for less than what all agree upon that year's "fair price" for pigs. The pig men have thus equalized...
...might avoid paying in their equalization fees by getting some local philanthropist to set up a marketing fund for them. Then, in years when the ten pig men raised more pigs than could be sold profitably in their home village, those who had surplus pigs could borrow from the fund to pay for transporting their pigs to distant markets, or to buy feed for pigs kept penned until the home village was ready to buy more pigs. In case the pig surplus was so great that the pig men's borrowings exhausted the loan fund, the pig men could...
...chamber next session. The last Negro Congressman was Representative George Henry White who served in the 55th and 56th Congresses from Tarboro, N. C. Before him there were 19 Negro Representatives and two Negro Senators. A majority of them were members of Reconstruction Congresses and men of small education. Ten, however, went to college; five were lawyers; others were preachers, teachers, planters. Seven were born slaves. Both the Senators were elected in Mississippi. Senator Hiram R. Revels filled an unexpired term in 1870-71. Senator Blanche K. Bruce served the full term of 1875-81. When last a Negro...
...Thompson machine gun, or so-called "submachine gun," was perfected some time ago and adopted by many a city police force as well as the U. S. Marines. It weighs only ten pounds, which is 100% lighter than any other weapon of similar functions. It fires 100 shots per minute and is valued for spraying death into a city street or narrow mountain defile. U. S. gangsters as well as police admire and use Thompson submachine guns. They are fired from the hip or from a rest on boulder, windowsill or automobile tonneau...