Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Chairman Shouse was given credit for this shrewd economic plea as an opening gun of the 1932 presidential campaign. Only thing that worried the Democrats in the aftermath of their victory was the way the stockmarket sagged lower and lower...
...substitution ("bottle" for "battle," "love" for "live"). Printing of "slays" for "slaps" once resulted in a $50,000 libel suit against the Telegram (TIME, June 9). Such errors are caused by a finger-slip of the linotype operator, whose typesetting machine has a lower-case keyboard arranged in this manner...
...women golfers are getting better. Their scores are lower because, learning how to hit harder, they have overcome as never before their chief difficulty-getting distance. At the national championship at the Los Angeles Country Club last month they were hitting drives and irons as far as most middling-handicap men players. Last week the Women's Committee of the U. S. Golf Association made a new standard of what is par, basing their estimate on the way the competitors played at Los Angeles. Holes of more than 500 yd. used to be par six for women. Now they...
...oldest son. Since 1897 Dow Chemical has prospered phenomenally, made for itself a reputation unique in its industry. In the late 1880's Dr. Dow was a senior at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland. He learned that the east central part of Michigan's lower peninsula is underlaid with great veins of brine and that salt from this brine was a failure because of impurities. He had the brilliant idea of extracting the impurities, making commercial use of them. In 1890, then 24, he went to Midland, bought with his partner a brine-well. He formed Midland Chemical...
...opening statement is that "the nature of the outcome, whether in the end a rate higher or lower than the corresponding one of 1922, depended on compromise, 'trading,' accident, and not infrequently on the persistence or dominance of some individual." He shows that the farmers themselves looked for little help from the tariff although they naturally took high rates on agricultural products when they could get them and that the manufacturers were already so well protected that no further change could be of any importance...