Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...volumes of stenography and a ton of documents had been accumulated up to last week by the Federal Trade Commission in its investigation of the business and political methods of interstate public utility companies, ordered by the Senate last winter. President Coolidge, whose appointees the trade commissioners are, said last week that in his opinion the ton and the ten volumes contained nothing requiring federal action, that state regulators had power to deal with such utility practices as might seem suspicious in the evidence. Chief among the trade commission's discoveries which have excited vigilant patriots is the distribution...
...obsolescent that process of fertilizer manufacture which requires water power to make the nitrates. Nebraska's Norris, who fought the farmers' fight in the Senate, wound up by admitting that Muscle Shoals fertilizer would probably not be cheap enough. The measure he pressed and got passed last winter dealt chiefly with Muscle Shoals water power, leaving the Department of Agriculture to experiment with fertilizer as a byproduct. The Senate voted for Government operation when persuaded that a Power Lobby had gone to extreme lengths to oppose...
...annual winter unemployment problems of agrarian Argentina were made more than usually acute, last week, by two strikes. The strike among longshoremen at the port-city of Rosario caused sympathetic strikes to break out at Buenos Aires and Sante Fe where three rioting strikers were killed. Meanwhile President Marcelo de Alvear was attempting without apparent success to prevent the calling of a threatened general strike of all railway and allied workers...
Harvard's schedule for next winter, comprising 13 games, is as follows...
Last week was not strikingly different from a hundred preceding weeks of Mr. Rockefeller. He was at his home in Lakewood, N.J. He had spent the winter and early spring at Ormond Beach, Fla. Soon he will go to his favorite estate ? 6,000-acre Pocantico Hills, with grottoes, pergolas, cascades, Greek statues, near Tarrytown, N. Y. He travels with the seasons, so that they will not interfere with his schedule...