Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Riding's Woolens...
...West Riding Chamber of Commerce protests against ... the increase of three cents a pound on scoured wool . . . imposed on the riding breeches used by members of the West Riding Chamber of Commerce! No won der Senator Harrison weeps over the situation." TIME, July...
...possible that Senator Smoot doesn't know that the West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the administrative divisions of the largest county in England, and contains large manufacturing cities like Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Halifax, or is he joking, or trying to make Senator Harrison believe it is a protest from a riding club...
...WEST RIDING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE refers to a great manufacturing region of England. The members may or may not ride, have horses; their chief vocation is the manufacturing of woolen goods. Either Senator Smoot was intentionally misleading, or unintentionally ignorant. It would be equally as bad for some Englishman to state that Congress was a meeting...
Last week, the directors of Middle West Utilities Co., great Insull holding company, voted a 10-to-1 splitup of its stock which, selling at $158 late in June, touched $370 per share last week. Stockholders were given 67 million dollars worth of "rights...