Word: allots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomatic worlds by demanding for Britain "MORE SPONGE CAKE!" But only last week was it possible to state that he wanted precisely 45 million marks more cake ($10,800,000) every year, until Germany has fully paid up her reparations. Since the Young Plan as originally drafted would allot 409 million marks annually to Great Britain, the Chancellor's demand would bring her share up to 454 million marks ($108,960,000). That was what correspondents called last week "Snowden's Second Ultimatum...
From the offices of the Federal Radio Commission there issued, last week, a dictum. The Commission exercised its right to allot the 639 short-wave channels which are available to commercial broadcasters in the U. S. ether. The Commission had to discriminate among 848 applicants, who asked a total of 2,204 channels...
...distinction and honors, a trend encouraging and significant. This gain is the sign of one of the nearing objectives in the Harvard academic system. The tendency may be taken as indicative of a desire on the part of undergraduates to take from College more than the common share would allot them. At any rate it suggests that more men yearly are striving, aided by tutorial conferences and the Reading Period, at least to sound the depths of learning...
...That the Government, by increasing its own expenses, had led to extravagance in the state governments. In particular the Agent General scored the system of collecting taxation, which is carried out by the Federal authorities, who then allot a certain share to each of the states. Mr. Gilbert's opinion is that this system in itself leads to unnecessary spending...
...problem of figuring out the handicaps to allot this trio will devolve upon F. V. McGrath, veteran handicapper of the New England...