Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief among these competitors were the houses of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., and Sears Roebuck & Co. Each announced drastic price cuts. Each advertised huge mileage guarantees. Montgomery Ward's "Super Service Riverside" tire carries a guarantee of 30.000 miles. Sears Roebuck gives its "Super Allstate" an assured life of 25,000 miles, proclaims: "No other manufacturer has dared to write such a guarantee," declares itself "America's Largest Distributor of Tires." But Montgomery Ward counters with the slogan. "World's Biggest Tire Dealer." The tire war seemed localized to the two principal mail order houses. While...
Throughout Scandinavia moose hunting is esteemed the noblest use of fire arms. Accordingly there is drastic enforcement of laws protecting wild moose out of season. But next winter a determined Parliamentary lobby will urge modification of the game law in the interest of the Swedish Match Co., a gigantic monopoly of such wealth and potency that it occasionally makes governmental loans to the smaller states of Europe...
...face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal law; development of a new liberal Conservative party out of the reactionary Tories; and finally, drastic Free Trade measures which initiated the vast expansion of British trade...
...reason for so drastic an appointment is, of course, that the Russian peasantry still seem disposed to raise only enough grain for their own needs, thus leaving the urban population facing a perpetual grain shortage...
...State. The reason was that the Nationalists had just served notice that they will not extend or renew the Sino-Japanese commercial treaty of 1896, which grants concessions most advantageous to Japan. In an effort to compel the Chinese Nationalists to reconsider, the Mikado's Government took four drastic steps. First, it refused to take diplomatic cognizance of the Chinese note. Second it stated its determination to consider that the Sino-Japanese treaty continues in force (although the expiration date is two years past) by virtue of an ambiguous automatic renewal clause. Third, it succeeded in breaking...