Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States Senator lots loose a long tirade against the Federal Reserve System which has been written for him by an ex-Comptroller of Currency. Politics in the Federal Reserve System would wreck it as rapidly and effectively as polishing the works of a Swiss watch with steel wool would stop the watch...
...these boys took up wireless. It was a hopeless effort, for Mr. Marconi himself was having heavy weather of it, even with all the money and facilities he was able to command. But as is always the case, failure only served to spur on the real dyed-in-the-wool enthusiast. When the queer properties of a piece of galena ore, or a crystal of silicon, carborundum and several other minerals was discovered, feeble little signals were occasionally heard, and this sealed the fate of many young men. They were able to communicate with each other at rare intervals over...
...future on the basis of what has gone before is entirely unsafe. For we live in the age of geographical-graphical distribution of industry, all parts of the globe being interdependent for the commodities of life, as well as for science and the arts. Australia supplies the wool that is spun and woven in England; Canada grows the wheat that Belgium consumes; American architects are rebuilding France; while Vienna sends her greatest surgeon to practice in New York. The principle of every nation for-itself has gone; just as individual craftsmanship gave way to large-scale production, so the group...
...however, that will be very much different from that which the University bucked up against last fall when it played Valparaiso, the western invader of 1920. Valparaiso was a "mystery" team about which the Crimson strategists knew comparatively little. Indiana is not. And unless Coach Steihm has pulled the wool completely over the eyes of this year's gridiron followers, his team this afternoon will display a conservative brand of football with trick plays and forwards reserved for a last-minute score-at-any-cost emergency...
...import food on a large scale. The reason why this will happen is the existence of the middlemen. The whole market system huge but too complex, is ran and for the benefit of this unproductive class, which battens on producer and consumer alike. A farmer gets $1.50 for the wool that goes to make up a suit for which we pay $80.00 the difference goes to the middlemen...