Word: tenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Businessmen wondered if the Hoover order would help the oil industry out of the depression it has sunk into through overproducing. Only one-tenth of U. S. oil production comes from government land. The Hoover order will cut this production in half, thus reducing the whole industry's supply by only 5%. But the moral effect of the move may be great...
...polychrome statuettes of unbaked clay which were discovered in the sand-buried city of Kara Khoto. The city was first correctly identified by Sir Aurel Stein; the Fogg Museum expedition of 1924 dug there and found, in addition to sculptures and fragments of unusual thirteenth-century frescos, a tenth-century bronze mirror. This is one of the very few Chinese mirrors taken from the earth by responsible persons, and is in exceptional condition...
...eighth child. "How do you live?" questioned Edward. "Well, you see," said Mr. Cameron, "I get ten bob [$2.40] a week from the Poor Law Guardians and 18 bob [$4.30] in vouchers for food." Thus nine mouths have been fed on $6.70 a week, and now there is a tenth. This latter aspect of miner-woe was frankly discussed by Bachelor Wales with Father-of-Eight Cameron. British correspondents indicated what H. R. H. had said by reporting that he spoke to the workless begetter with "sympathy and anger...
Round Twelve. Rockefeller Jr. resumed his tactics of the tenth round. This time his feint was an observance of the amenities: He paid his respects in Cairo to King Fuad. At the same time his Manhattan office through Thomas M. Debe voise, collector of pro-Rockefeller proxies, announced,. "We now feel confident of having enough proxies. We shall continue bending our energies to obtain many more stockholders for our side, for we are anxious to lead in the number of voters as well as in the volume of share-holders...
...tenth group of First Year Law Courts will receive their assignments today. For these clubs briefs are due on February 1 and the arguments will be held at 7.30 o'clock on February 8 at the places specified. The plaintiff is mentioned first in the following summaries...