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Since the Italian debts to the U. S. and Britain have been heavily scaled down and funded (Italy paying the U. S. a doubtful 25c on the $1), the Italian government found itself last week in a position to undertake enterprises and expenditures which otherwise would not have been financially prudent. Examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Prudent? | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...last week they were startled and then they began to laugh again. He had lowered a tariff. He had lowered the duty on live bobwhite quail valued at less than $5.00 a head, from 50 to 25c each. The duty was lowered at the request of the game wardens of several states. There was practically no opposition. It was claimed that the duty of 50c was more than the difference between the cost of producing live bobwhites in the U. S. and in the principal competing country,- Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Bobwhite Quail | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...gave up the practice, the State Gasoline Commission having reached an agreement with dealers that they would maintain a fair price. Last week Governor Carl Gunderson ordered 24 gasoline stations opened by the state, chiefly in county-seat towns. He argued that gasoline is now selling at about 25c. a gallon that could profitably be sold for 21 or 22c., that citizens can save $3,000,000 a year if state gasoline stations are reopened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mentions: Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

Increase of fees from 10 to 25c. to 12, 15 and 25c...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postal Pay | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...passengers, freight and mail from Paris to Bucharest across Central Europe, gave figures. It spent 17,000,000 francs in 1923, or about $850,000, flying 10,090 hr. and 800,000 mi.-something over a dollar a mile. How was the dollar spent? Twenty-five cents for depreciation, 25c. for upkeep of plane and motor, 12c. for fuel and oil, 3c. for automobile transportation, 20c. for pay of pilots and other personnel, 4c. for insurance and lie. for commercial operation including management and publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 1 | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

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