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...campaign began?the attack on extortionate prices for rubber and other raw products which the U. S. imports. The rubber situation came about in this...
...Americans are bad losers. They have had control of too many raw products like wheat, oil, cotton and tobacco to take it coolly when the other fellow happens to get something they haven't got." As a matter of fact if the U. S. could apply to farm produce something like the scheme the British are using with rubber, our farm difficulties would be solved.* Both the British and the Democrats in Congress pointed to the U. S. high tariff as an instance of a similar policy of protection to native industries...
...best to conduct them, nor students to engage in them. And too often the primary purpose is preparation for divisionals, a single man at his desk may be able to acquire a greater mass of facts than at such meetings; their great merit consists not in giving the raw material of education, but is stimulating the desire to attain in and in developing the power to utilize...
...some the sound of popping corks is music of the sweetest; others fancy the tones of their own voice as reverberated by the tiled walls of a bathroom; to a man who truly loves his work even the angry, mosquito-like whine of an alarm-clock in the raw dusk of a winter morning may be welcome. But partisans of these noises generally realize that friends might be seriously offended if forced to share their taste, particularly if the friends desired at the moment only to sleep. Using such instances as parallels, certain tenants of apartment houses on Park Avenue...
Admiral Lord Beatty called attention somewhat bluntly to "the facts which demand the existence of an adequate British navy." Said he: "The worldwide trade routes upon which we are dependent for our food and raw materials . . . are no shorter or less complicated than in 1914." He demanded that the new program of ship replacements, which is expected to cost eventually some ?70,000,000 ($340,000,000), be proceeded with. He added...