Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Problem of the rubber industry is the elasticity of crude rubber prices (from $3 a Ib. in 1910 to 2? lb. in 1933), controlled by conditions abroad. General Johnson & aides will have to allow for a wide basic price range in manufactured rubber products...
...regulatory code in the copper business will have to allow for: 1) a wide range of production costs between U. S. refineries; 2) new sources of cheap foreign copper, against which the Administration may not want to erect a higher tariff wall...
Though gold coin passed out of the lives of most U. S. citizens two months ago, it continues to engage the energetic attentions of Secretary of the Treasury Woodin and Attorney General Cummings who last week began a nation-wide hunt for hoarders...
...thoroughgoing expositions of matter, space, spacetime, relativity, electricity, heat & light, the quantum theory and Rontgen rays, the solar system, galactic universe and nebulae, evolution and man's origin. As Dr. Barnes points out: "The intellectual gulf between the leaders of science and the educated citizen is dangerously wide." Yet in his lectures there are numerous stout little bridges...
...Palmer House, Just 13 days before John Drake scampered out of the path of the fire to buy himself a new hotel, Potter Palmer swung wide the doors of Chicago's finest hostelry. Like most of Chicago it was burned to the ground. But the grizzled bon-vivant who had sold his drygoods store to Levi Leiter and Marshall Field because he thought his days were numbered, lived to see a new Palmer House become Chicago's first world-famed hotel. Its barber shop (floor studded with silver dollars) set the fashion for every first-class saloon west...