Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reasons for Arson, Murder. One essential fact is the key to understanding of the present days of wrath between Agrarians and Proletarians in Russia. The fact is that Dictator Stalin is straining and perhaps overtaxing the resources of the country to get money for his industrialization program. He has turned the screw of direct taxation on the Kulak. With varying harshness in varying districts he has forced peasant and Kulak to sell their grain to the State at prices fixed by it-low prices. Most of this grain is consumed in Russian cities, but Stalin's policy...
...Harvey Nathaniel Davis, Harvard's able, big-hearted professor of mechanical engineering, made a special point to get Dr. John Johnston, U. S. Steel Corp.'s director of research, to attend his inauguration this week as president of Stevens Institute of Technology. Stevens Institute sells scientific information and advice to wise business leaders...
...bituminous part, has long had trouble making money. Despite great reserves of mined coal, competition from gas, oil and waterpower have kept prices low. The producers have become aggressively intent on selling coal derivatives-pulverized coal, tar, fuel oil, gasoline, gas, dyes, perfumes, drugs, alcohol, etc., etc. How to get those products, scientists already know much; how to utilize that knowledge, coal men know very little...
...Francisco's underworld, 22 years ago. It is a candid melodrama, of vice rampant and virtue triumphant; yet its most bitter climaxes are meant to be accepted and enjoyed in a somewhat mocking spirit. The audience will gloat, not shiver, when a character says: "I'll get you for this, Logan, if it takes me twenty years"; or, "Wong, you'll pay for this...
...Crimson also has displayed a tendency to fumble at critical points and to get mixed up occasionally in running off plays. Also her attack has not yet become well synchronized...