Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operative Marketing. The boldest step toward cooperative marketing that has yet been taken was made by five of the largest grain elevator companies of the Middle West.* They banded themselves together into a great unit, the Grain Marketing Company, with capital stock of $51,000,000. Not more than $26,000,000 of this will be outstanding at one time, however. First, to the public is to be sold $25,000,000 of preferred stock. Then gradually an equal amount of preferred stock and a million dollars' worth of common stock are to be sold to bona fide grain...
...perhaps because of her husband, she has not abstained from politics. But the politics of which she partakes is not the kind of politics which her husband pursues. John W. Davis is the son of the late John J. Davis, who was for long a political leader in West Virginia. The son marched into politics along the practical path followed by his father. He marched into the House of Representatives...
From this barren isle, which lies off the north-west coast of Africa and forms a unit of the Canary Isles, Don Miguel was in the habit of sending forth to the outside world violent protests against the cavalier manner in which Primo had treated him and also against the arbitrary rule of him that is called Primo...
...Island Empire of the West (Britain), once a protectionist Nation, has thought it indispensable to its interests to become the greatest free-trade Nation in the world. The Island Empire of the East, whose geographical position is analogous to that of the British Commonwealth of Nations, has been tempted from the Broadway of free-trade into the side-streets of protection, emulating, in this respect...
...West Point Army Band, accompanied by the penetrating soprano voice of Nannette Guilford, delivered the National Anthem. Margaret Anglin, tragedienne, gave a dramatic reading. Frederick A. Wallis, Commissioner of Correction, made a speech on "spiritual tendencies." A battery of "seventy-fives" roared a salute of thirteen guns. One of the gunners caught his hand in a breechblock. A physician had to be called...