Word: downward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, as is earnestly hoped, some revision downward may be made in the minimum board charge, there will be ample opportunity for the existence of clubs which serve one meal a day. Such organizations have a successful prototype in the Metropolitan lunch clubs, and would perform a valuable service in bringing men of different Houses together several times a week. A revision of the club system in this direction would retain most of the real advantages of the present system and do away with the isolated clique tendency which finds its fullest and worst development in so many other American...
...probable cause of last week's quake, according to Arthur Keith, chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Geology and Geography, is counter pressure. When glaciers and icecaps a mile thick covered eastern Canada and northeastern U. S., their weight squeezed the land rocks downward. Now the rocks are slowly bulging upwards...
...Debated the Tariff Bill, revising agricultural rates upward, wood rates downward...
...Debated the tariff bill, revising downward the rates on earthenware, metals, manufactures...
...more steel was bought, until 200,000 shares had been purchased against constantly rising quotations. Other buyers bought other pivotal stocks. In an hour General Electric was up 21 points, Montgomery Ward up 23, Radio up 16, A. T. & T. up 22. How far the market would have gone downward on its unchecked momentum is difficult to say. But brokers and traders alike agreed that the man who bid 205 for 25,000 shares of Steel had made himself a hero of a financially historic moment...