Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recovery from the agricultural depression of 1920-1921 has been accomplished step by step and industry by industry. In 1921 dairying began to enjoy stabler conditions. In 1922 cotton recovered from the worst of its post-war slump. Hogs brought better prices in 1921 and 1922. Corn rallied in 1923 and wheat last year. All this while the cattlemen, however, have been vainly looking for brighter skies. Only recently here conditions favored this long depressed industry...
...honest worker will believe the sort of picture of Russia drawn by Max Eastman. It contains its own refutation. It is immaterial what were Eastman's intentions. His booklet can only render service to the worst enemies of Communism and revolution. It therefore objectively constitutes a weapon of counter-revolution...
...stocks, the public know and let alone the best and the worst. But there are not apparently enough uncertain stocks with big possible future earning power to go round. In consequence, sensational advances continue in American Can, Mack Truck and similar issues. The rage for utility shares has apparently begun to subside, owing partly to Mr. Insull's warning (see below). But now railroads are beginning to be boomed...
Seven years ago, when the world was rolling in the pangs of its worst anguish before giving birth to a red and painful peace, Dr. Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, dreamed that the churches, like the nations, might meet at a conference table. He began to make plans. Last week his labor and vision were consummated. The Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work began its first session in Stockholm, Sweden...
...Marriage Whirl. Corinne Griffith has, taken so many thousands on the barb of her attraction that it is doubtless idle to intimate that this adventure is one of the worst of photoplays. It is a story of the younger generation, married and very fond of gin. Great parties in expensive country houses and great scowls on the faces of the stern fathers. Nita Naldi, slimmer these days, is very wicked...