Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Smoot proposed a scale of sugar duties that would vary inversely to the wholesale New York price of sugar. His purpose was to stabilize that price at $6 per 100 lb. Insistent was he that it would produce sugar rates lower than those in the House bill. The top rate in the Smoot scale would be $3 per 100 lb., the bottom $1. Cuban imports would still benefit by a 20% differential. When sugar was exactly at $6 per 100 lb. the tariff would be $2.20, the present duty, with Cuba paying $1.76. The duty would decline...
...tended to weaken the employers front in Lancashire. The potent Rothermere press envisioned Germany and Japan as "likely to acquire, perhaps permanently" a huge volume of business sure to be lost by Britain in the event of a long strike. "The textile mills of Northern France are working at top speed." warned Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, "and they will reap a golden harvest of orders that ordinarily would go to Lancashire. . . Even Poland is reckoning on big profits...
Fascists dismissed for scandalous cause have always been dropped into a well of silence. If the press were allowed to expose the rascality of ex-Fascists, sooner or later the public might suspect that some Fascist in good standing is a rascal top. Last week the press gag was crammed in tight, as Dictator Mussolini dismissed Tycoon Belloni in disgrace. But rumor cannot be stifled. Soon it was believed that...
...entirely new automobile. It has no chassis. It has no springs. It has a 60-inch wheel base (a little more than half as long as a Model A Ford). If its owner is a tall man he can stand on the ground and look over its top. It weighs 600 lb. It will be shipped in a weatherproof packing case which has a hinged door and will serve as its garage. It will go 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline. It has a 4-cylinder air-cooled engine. It is a two seater but three can squeeze into...
Earth's atmosphere is only seven to eight miles thick. Aviators have been able to reach the top and hover there a few moments. Outside is the tenuous stratosphere, about 70 miles thick. Man has not entered that yet, although small balloons bearing measurements have done...