Word: unites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This increased production per unit has led to great improvements in cigarmaking machinery, thus releasing makers from many irksome union restrictions and cheapening costs. Large cigar-makers are consequently planning national advertising campaigns to obtain national distribution of their products. They predict that within a few years the 5-cent cigar will once more be a staple U. S. product, of good quality and huge demand...
...between the "big four" during the first half of 1925, International Harvester led in unit sales with a round total of 9,000 vehicles, compared with 6,500 last year; Mack Truck's sales were 5,900 against 4,400 in 1924; White sold 6,200, against 5,500 last year; but Pierce Arrow sold only about 1,050 this year against 1,080 last year...
...necessary that the number of representatives from each state be in proportion to its population. If population grew uniformly throughout the country there would be no need for reapportionment, but population does not grow in that way. So periodically a ratio is determined (one representative to a certain unit of population) and the number of Congressmen to each state is reapportioned. Naturally, Congressmen object to any reapportionment which would reduce their numbers and throw some of them out of jobs. Consequently at every reapportionment except one (that following the Census of 1840) the number of Congressmen was increased. CENSUS...
Long has it been asseverated that Lincoln C. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement, would have free hands, unhampered by politics, in selecting the personnel of the reorganized Prohibition Unit soon to be constituted (TIME, July...
...member of the class of 1918 at Yale, to which college he came after being graduated from Groton, he devoted himself after the opening of the European War to the formation of the Yale Naval Aviation Unit, which performed heroic service later both in matters of organization and of actual combat, and of which Ralph D. Paine had just completed a history before his death. Into this he poured enthusiasm, time and money. He built it up to a point of great usefulness and efficiency. Then, when he was taking his own flying tests at Huntington...