Word: adding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practically nothing for his recently acquired properties and thus releases his resources for his next step. His income is not affected by this depreciation, for he regulates prices strictly on the basis of dollar exchange values, putting the capital thus obtained into new investments and repeating the process ad infinitum. Thus coal costs 69,000 times its pre-War cost. Wages paid by Stinnes before the War were 17 cents an hour. Under the present scale wages are between seven and ten cents per hour, thus halving his pre-War costs of production...
...Union Council of People's Commissaries is in effect a Cabinet headed by M. Vladimir Ilich Ulianov-Lenin (portfolio filled ad interim by Kamenev) as President. The Council is directly under the Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee, which has the power of revising any of its decisions. The Council is, however, also responsible to the Union Central Executive Committee and the Union Congress of Soviets, to which it is obliged to render reports...
...ending war between Poland and Russia was ratified November 2, 1920, and the final treaty was signed at Riga, March 18, 1921, or three days before the incident. It appears that Germany had no right to detain the ship. Professor Walter Schücking (German) was appointed a judge ad interim in conformity with the statutes of the Court...
RAIN?Jeanne Eagels knocks the spirit of the blue-laws for a row of foreign missionaries in a gorgeous reductio ad absurdum of inbred Puritanism, accompanied onstage by a tropical downpour that makes you wonder why you forgot your umbrella...
...Duchess, ex-Susie Potter of Chicago, had been separated since the latter's accouchement, 20 years ago. She loved him-but he was a roué-oh such a roué!-so she took her millions and their daughter (his little daughtaire 'e 'ad not seen 'ardly at all) and came to America, intent upon marrying daughter to a nice, clean-cut, young American millionaire, sans blue blood or indiscriminately amorous proclivities...