Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefits of Prohibition in Louisville, Ky.?once the "whiskey capital" of the U. S.?were depicted by its citizen Henry H. Johnson who vowed that the country club expression, "the 19th hole," was now unknown in his State. Resorting to statistics, he declared that Louisville's rate of population growth had increased eight times in the last ten years, that its factory output had doubled, that its property values had almost trebled. Declared he: "Ninety per cent of Louisville's prosperity is due to the fact that we got rid of the blasting, blighting liquor business...
...January the Senate voted 4840-38 not to raise the duty on sugar as proposed by the Finance Committee. Last week when Senator Smoot offered an individual amendment to increase the world sugar rate from 2.20¢ per Ib. to 2.50¢ (Cuban: 1.76¢ to 2¢), the Senate reversed its position and adopted 47-10-39 the Smoot Amendment. Reason: legislative trading. Washington's Senators Jones and Dill, for instance, reversed themselves to get a lumber duty. Oklahoma's Senators Pine and Thomas did likewise to get an oil duty. Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden switched for a long...
...tobacco products in 1928, and the expenditure for 1929 is estimated to have exceeded $1,750,000,000. These figures represent over 4% of our total retail expenditures and about 2% of our total money income. The per capita expenditure ... is now running at the rate of about 4? per day and the average annual expenditure per family is about...
American Tobacco. Production of Lucky Strikes in January showed an increase of 14½ times the total increase registered for all brands. Cremo (Spit is a horrid word) is being produced at the rate of 1,110,000 a day. When American Tobacco's George Washington Hill took over the active management of American Cigar Co. last May only 93,000 Cremos were being made...
...mankind. I gave the world light?good light, cheap light. Is it my fault if they used it to outrage the beauty and peace of the night. ?to make a cheap bazaar out of every street and avenue, selling one another cigarettes and chewing gum at the rate of a million candlepower a minute? I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman and child might know the glory of great music and great speech; so that the great singer, the great instrumentalist, might have all future generations of men for his audience. So I thought and dreamed...