Word: smallest
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Corn Crop, estimated at 2,800,000,000 bu. on July 1, 2,120,000,000 bu. Aug. 1, had declined to 1,983,000,000 bu. on Sept. 1 as a result of the Drought. This harvest would be the smallest in 29 years. Two months of rainlessness had withered 29% or 817,000,000 bu. of the corn crop, a cash loss of about $775,000,000. The 1930 crop appeared to be 24% less than that...
...gain. Unexpectedly it nosed out New York to lead in absolute gain as well. Massachusetts dropped from sixth to eighth place. New Jersey forged ahead of Missouri into ninth place. Georgia showed the least gain. Montana showed a loss. The decade's average gain of 16.1% was the smallest in U. S. census history, except for 1920 when population was only 14.9% over 1910, because of War conditions...
...motorists this week inspected the world's smallest automobile?28 in. shorter than any standard U. S. car. Announced last summer, built at Butler, Pa. under the direction of able Arthur J. Brandt, the American Austin was exhibited this week in dealers' showrooms throughout the country and will be making retail deliveries early in July. Austin men say that dealers have ordered 183,000 Austins, priced at $445 F. O. B. Butler (Ford roadster, $435; Ford coupé, $495, F. O. B. Detroit; Chevrolet roadster and touring, $495; Chevrolet coupé, $565, F. O. B. Flint, Mich.; Durant coach sedan...
...save the smallest newspapers, press association news is now sent by automatic telegraph-typewriters called teletype printers. At the central transmitting office an operator types the copy on a machine similar in appearance to a typewriter. Each letter sets up a characteristic electric impulse which is carried thousands of miles, over costly leased wires, to receiving machines in scores of newspaper offices. There, instantaneously and simultaneously, the impulses are re-converted into typewritten copy...
Under the new plan and its subsequent developments, an effort is to be made to provide adequate instruction for the Freshman class. The immediate change, the development of the advisory system, is the smallest and least important item of this development. It is quite possible, however, that a greater and more expert personal interest in individual first year men will help to avoid many of the usual scholastic pitfalls that threaten at the beginning of the college career. But to accomplish any substantial reform, the entire system of instruction of the first year must be improved. When this is done...