Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...much more in the way of raw materials from her Dominions than at present (because Argentine, U. S. and Russian offerings would be shut out by the Empire wall), and she would sell more of her manufactured products than at present to the Dominions (because they are willing to lower their present tariffs somewhat in her favor...
...that a "dope ring" had parceled out the island to pedlers, whose sales aggregated $100,000 weekly. A few days before these arrests the police discovered the ring's arsenal-guns and other murderous .instruments in an apartment two blocks from sociologically famed Henry Street Settlement in the lower East Side. The weapons were used to destroy poachers who sneaked into allotted narcotic districts...
...used to suck up cold water, 40º F., through a mile-long tube from the bottom of Matanzas Bay. Warm surface water, 80º F., rushes through other pipes into a large vacuum tank. When a liquid is kept under low pressure, it will boil at temperatures much lower than 212º F. The pressure in the vacuum tank, Dr. Claude explained, is low enough to cause the 80º surface water to boil, give off steam. When he finished his explanation, he pressed a switch, started his sea-machine to work. Shortly the steam began to turn...
...Constitution of the Irish Free State which he worked out with Michael Collins and to which he contributed the ingenious "Oath of Fealty," having discovered that Irish Parliamen tarians would choke rather than swear an oath of allegiance to George V. Matter of fact fealty implies a lower grovel than allegiance...
...volume, last week Railway Age said: "This is the first year in the entire history of the railroads of the United States when their freight business has been as small as it was ten years before." Besides general depression, reasons are well-known: competition with busses, waterways, pipelines; some lower rates as result of political agitation. In 1920 there was an average daily car shortage of 81,000 cars. This year the same freight volume has left an average daily surplus of 450,000 cars. One reason: incomparably greater efficiency