Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great hunch and started examining the rings on yellow pines. By the time he had made 10,000 meticulous measurements and compared them with weather records he had verified what he suspected from the first-that the thickness of each year's growth ring is proportional to the amount of rainfall that year. It was clear then that before man-made records were dreamed of, the trees were faithfully inscribing rainfall records in their hearts. To patch together a continuous rainfall calendar it remained for Douglass to match thickness & thinness sequences from innumerable pieces of wood, new, middle-aged...
...factory worth one million dollars, and there is a fifty percent devaluation of the dollar, the value of his factory in dollars will increase. He will pay a huge capital gains tax on the increase. Yet he will not have increased his real holdings by one cent. By the amount of the levy, his share of the nation's wealth will be directly reduced...
There is no question that Railroads, or some of them, or most of them, have been badly run in the past. There has been a tremendous amount of financial legerdemain. Their stock has been watered. The managers have been known to have deliberately debased the value of the stock in their companies, in order to make speculative profits on the market. It is even reasonable to say that this mismanagement has resulted in the present financial condition of Railroads, in that they are still paying interest on capital which was filched from them, in one way or another...
...services to students. In place of this, laundries and pressing shops would employ men as solicitors on a straight percentage basis. While there are no exact figures on the total income under the present system, it is estimated that such a change as this would not substantially alter the amount earned. 2. The financial affairs of student businesses could be opened to the inspection of University Hall. A bond, similar to the one required of applicants for admission, would assure financial responsibility in this case. 3. Similar to the second plan, but still more paternalistic is Yale's system...
...basis for action in the gold clause suits now before the Court, hinges upon the validity of Public Resolution No. 10 of the 73rd Congress. In effect, this declared that every debtor who has agreed to pay his debt in gold coin of a certain value, or in any amount of money measured thereby, shall be discharged from that debt upon payment dollar for dollar in any coin or currency which at the time of payment is legal tender for public or private debts. More simply stated, it means: That under the former value of money...