Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the check-off was satisfactory in the bituminous mines. The committee stated that it had filed a request with the Coal Commission for the abolition of the checkoff. Said the committee : " This system was originally accepted in the bituminous industry in the hope that it would tend to lessen strikes and breaches of agreement. The result has been just the opposite. . . . Under the check-off the United Mine Workers raise every year more than $17,000,000. From this huge sum they paid the expenses of the armed invasion of West Virginia in 1921. ... By it (the checkoff) they...
...expectancy rather than a realization of accomplishment should pervade the summer financial markets, and the present July is no exception. Trade is experiencing its usual seasonal slackening. The extractive industries, especially steel, are at last showing a decided slowing down; even the excessive oil output is beginning to lessen. In general, five separate parts of the business outlook are now looked to as likely to develop tangible and important results: 1) the anticipated crash of German finances, with its attendant reparation problem; 2) the sagging price of American wheat; 3) the deadlock in the building industry, and the unstable rent...
...Idaho Falls the President suggested in general a scheme for a consumers' league to lessen the cost of necessaries by coöperative buying. At Butte, the President had a speech to deliver on revived business prosperity. Unfortunately he was taken to a gathering at a baseball park, where poor acoustics made it impossible to speak. So the speech was just handed to the press. At Helena that evening he spoke on labor conditions, condemning on one hand capitalists for a policy of "breaking down labor," and on the other hand arousing Samuel Gompers to say that the President...
Premier Benito Mussolini is not a prohibitionist. But he thinks that there exist in Italy " alcoholic abuses," and he is determined to lessen the number of wine shops. Accordingly, he has ordered the enforcement of an old law of licenses which allows only one for every 2,000 people...
...joined the chorus of exterior chorus. " Down with the management!" the howl from the galleries drowned the music. But such was the respect inspired by Toscannini that the disturbers in the theatre amplified their cries. "Down with the management! " they shouted, " Ma evviva Toscannini! " The compliment, however, did not lessen the clamor. The enraged musician tried for a while to keep on with the performance, in spite of the din, but finally had to give it up and order the doors opened. The crowd poured in. The opera began again...