Word: infantability
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...example, a tariff of 25 per cent was robbery, but you added that you were ready to give 10 per cent., 15 per cent., 20 per cent., 22 per cent., 23 per cent., or even as high as 24 per cent. Economists are agreed that all protection, except to "infant" industries, means robbery and that the high American standard of wages is not due to tariff. How then, do you justify your willingness to concede as much as 96 per cent of the demands of the steel men? Is the steel industry an "infant" industry in this country...
...charming!" exclaimed Elizabeth, Duchess of York, and promised to carry the sketch to her daughter Princess Elizabeth ("Baby Betty") most popular infant in Great Britain...
...cried: "It is a very terrible thing to think that today out of every 250 mothers, one dies in childbirth, and that this state of things has persisted for the last 20 years. . . . Meanwhile the general death rate has decreased from 14 per 1,000 to 12.3 and the infant mortality rate has dropped from 89 to 70 per 1,000. . . . Clearly the time has come when a great new effort ought to be made [Cries of 'Hear! Hear!'] to bring down the percentage of maternal mortality . . . which alone shows no improvement...
...Smart persons do not confuse Commodore P-e-r-r-y with Rear Admiral Robert Edwin P-e-a-r-y (1856-1920), discoverer of the North Pole (1909) and father of the "Snow Baby," Marie Ahnighito ("Peaked Mountain") Peary, once famed as the Farthest-North-born white infant, later the daughter-in-law of Judge Wendell Philips Stafford, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
...with old John D. it was different; he was out to develop an infant industry; caveat emptor was the bust ess standard of that time. He heard there was gold in oil when he was 22, and a year later he was in the oil business with an Englishman named M. B. Clark and a mechanical wizard named Samuel Andrews. Bargaining and borrowing was Mr. Rockefeller's prime task. Once he told a Clevelander that he wanted to invest $10,000 before he hit that same Clevelander for a loan of $5,000. So it is easy to understand...