Word: basically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...platform on which the National Socialists hope to seat themselves in the Reichstag next month is, basically, built on these planks: 1) annulment of the Versailles and St. Germain treaties, 2) abandonment of reparations payments, 3) dissolution of the Reichswehr (volunteer army) and organization of a strong conscripted German army, 4) restoration of all colonies, 5) socialization of all basic industry, 6) disfranchisement of all Jews, 7) expulsion of all non-Germans who have immigrated since Aug. 2, 1914 If such an extraordinary program should win the Fascists a large block of seats in the Reichstag old President Paul...
...More basic commodity than steel is the pig iron from which steel comes. Last week's Iron Age reported pig iron production during the first seven months was off 17.8% from last year, 3.2% from 1928. But production in August started off at the lowest daily rate for any month in nearly six years...
...owned the following items, set down the approximate price in dollars and cents for which you would sell them, and the sort of purchaser you would select: (a) Ford coupe which had run 5,000 mi. (b) Basic patent which will reduce the cost cf manufacturing shoes 20? a pair. (c) Secret process for manufacturing a drug which will definitely cure cancer. (d) Ten acres of land in a good farming section of Iowa...
...Dunning's basic innovation was "countervailing duties." If the U. S. duty on cold storage eggs is raised or lowered to X¢ per dozen, then the Canadian duty on U. S. cold storage eggs automatically goes to X¢. From the Liberal standpoint of preferring to have free trade, the Dunning scheme looks like an honest effort to set Canadian duties no higher than "circumstances make necessary" and to lower them again at the first sign of "cooperation" from the U. S. or other high-tariff countries...
Though an innovation among U. S. cars, "free wheeling" is a commonplace abroad. It is standard or optional equipment on a long list of cars including the Austin 12, Citroen, Humber, Chenard-Walcker, Renault. Studebaker, which also has announced a price-cut on its sixes, holds basic patents for its particular free-wheeling device...