Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...assets of 24.2 billion dollars-equal to more than half the Federal public debt-87½% of the total U. S. life insurance company assets...
...they continue to observe his voluntary program, Governor James figures producers will gain by: 1) more annual operating days per mine; 2) stabilized employment in working all mines the same number of days; 3) an equal opportunity to regain markets lost to competitive fuels. As for the bootleggers, the Governor hopes they will ultimately be absorbed by stabilized legitimate producers. This pious hope gains strength from the cooperative policy of neighboring States (New York. New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware), which have already narrowed the 'leggers' markets by import (stolen goods) restrictions...
Meanwhile, the 1940 "corrective" recession was gaining momentum. In Textiles, surpluses pushed prices down most sharply. Cotton mills, mostly on three shifts for months, are practically through shipping on 1939 orders, must face the fact that new orders are equal to only 33% to 40% of their capacity. Woolen mills are in the same plight...
...contribution of $29,277.03 credited directly to the Harvard unit was equal to more than half of the quota assigned to forty-one educational institutions, including the University, comprising the School and College Group of Greater Boston...
...last year, Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul made an exception to this rule, when he preached a sermon at a men's rally promoted by an Episcopalian. In New Haven, Conn, last Sunday night, a Catholic priest did likewise by appearing at Yale University on equal footing with a Protestant minister...