Word: readjustment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because the cost of air mail service exceeded the postage revenue by some $7,000,000 last year, thus increasing the department's deficit Postmaster General Brown has called a conference of air mail operators to "readjust" contract rates...
...Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given by their representatives at Geneva: namely that an International Finance Commission shall be set up with all appropriate speed, to readjust the whole structure of Reparations Payments (TIME. Sept. 24). However, Chancellor Churchill has long been known to favor at least temporary retention of the Reparations status quo. Therefore it was not surprising that Host Churchill kept Guest Gilbert out in the open a great deal-displaying to him the Churchill...
...thing the U. S. State Department may impair the whole arrangement by sternly advising U. S. financiers not to absorb the German bonds. For another thing Great Britain is known to be tolerably well pleased by the Reparations status quo; and Chancellor Churchill in particular has displayed reluctance to readjust his precariously balanced budget on the basis of a new arrangement with Germany...
...Most of the eight have been powers in their particular fields, have now forged beyond their fields into larger industrial problems. The Ford plant in Dearborn is held the world's most exhaustive and interesting experiment in mechanistic production. Establishing a plantation in Liberia, Tiremaker Firestone attempts to readjust the world's rubber economics. As head of Sears Roebuck & Co., Julius Rosenwald directs a merchandising policy which threatens to bring many a U. S. manufacturer to terms...
...much better are these courses than the one proposed! Those for whom organized religion has not broken down and those who desire to readjust themselves should not be corralled into a required course. Because of their disinterested presence, such a course must necessarily lack spontaneity, must become, for many at least, a bugbear. Around that course, designed to enable "the student to work out a rational view of life", there will grow rank vegetation: tutoring schools will offer to sell "a rational view of life and raise your grade a letter--or your money back." At section meetings, the unwilling...