Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cause of United Fruit Co.'s drastic threats was Costa Rica's new law placing a tax of 3% a bunch upon bananas, second only to coffee in Costa Rican economics. Angry, the U. F. C. declared it would be cheaper to open new plantations in other countries, showed its annoyance by stopping new planting in Costa Rica, refusing to renew contracts with independent growers. United Fruit Co. trade is essential to Costa Rica. Last year Costa Rica's revenues came to $33,318,699, those of the fruit company to $20,606,393. Observers last week believed...
...flogged "when delinquent." But on the spot, he humored his pink-cheeked, starry-eyed wife by signing a decree which has kept Hungarian soldiers from being flogged ever since. 1929. In Budapest last week Hungary's new War Minister Julius ("No Mattresses!") Goembos,* laid before Parliament a new, drastic military penal code restoring the penalty of flogging. The measure is as good as passed since it was introduced with the full approval of Dictator Stephen Bethlen.† Soon many a Hungarian soldier will receive an old fangled flogging thus: He strips to the waist. Meanwhile whips have been doled...
...effects of a loud cut-out and a sing-song auto horn throughout the length of Mt. Auburn Street just as the majority of the residents of Randolph, Claverly and the other Mt. Auburn buildings are about to surrender themselves to the soothing to embrace of Morpheus, merits a drastic cure. For the benefit of New York's commission, a variation of the Chinese torture is suggested, whereby all these destroyers of peace be sentenced to padded cells, where they may slowly starve to death to the tune of a thousand mixed auto horns...
...grant of supreme executive power to President Emilio Portes Gil in revising the criminal code may surely appear to most as a drastic reform. Considering the national peculiarities of the country, however, any discussion of the particular measures should prove of interest and even of value. The substitution of expert alienists in place of a jury system has at least the ultramodern touch; the alleviation of fines to suit the individual income of the prisoner though departing from the stern unswerving rigors of the usual courts of justice, seems in line with proper social ethics; whereas the last important item...
Last week, undeterred by the failure of the French revolutionists, Russian Communists announced a new Soviet "Eternal Calendar" to become effective at once. Drastic, the "Eternal Calendar" divides the year into 73 weeks of five days each. A week consists of four work days and one day of rest. Saturday, Sunday and all religious holidays are abolished but there are five national holidays: Jan. 9, anniversary of the massacre of Socialists in front of the Winter Palace in 1905; Jan. 21, anniversary of the death of Lenin; May 1, international Labor day; Oct. 26, anniversary of the October revolution...