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...Germany from taxation, railway earnings and industrial debentures. Payments to be fixed on a sliding scale, starting with $250,000,000 (cash and deliveries in kind) and rising to a standard payment of $625,000,000-. A system of supplementary payments, based on an "index of prosperity," to augment the sum of $312,500,000 for the financial years of 1929-30 to 1933-34; thereafter the supplementary payment shall be added to the standard payment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPARATIONS: The Judgment | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...marks, administered by non-Germans and located in Berlin. "This should cause a rapid stabilization of the mark, perhaps in a few months time," Professor Carver explained. "The 'partial' moratorium for four years for which the plan provides, will probably yield increasing sums as prosperity continues to augment in Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAILURE OF DAWES PLAN MAY MEAN COLLAPSE SAYS CARVER | 4/8/1924 | See Source »

...Her?presumably?last words. To the Archbishop of Canterbury, who had been recalling her great accomplishments.) My lord, the crown which I have borne so long has given enough of vanity in my time. I beseech you not to augment it in this hour when I am so near my death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books : Books : Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

Readers of this Bulletin are hereby offered a splendid opportunity to augment their libraries through the purchase of the following items. "The History of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, Don Quixote." This work is standard, being translated from the Spanish by P. A. Motteux. It is a four volume set, the books being octavos and the plates used are those of Harper & Brothers. The volumes are bound sturdily in green cloth with paper labels. The price is $7.25 per set postpaid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brief Bits About Books | 11/2/1923 | See Source »

...same thing applies in other relations of life of a public or semi-public nature. We hear much of the rights of property and of labor. Is the owner of property justified in managing it to augment his own profits, regardless of the general welfare; and is the laborer justified in curtailing production if it be to the detriment of the community at large; and if not, what are the proper limitations? Again, it is not my object here to express or imply answers to such questions, but to point out that they require answers; because the tranquility and welfare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NEED MORE CLEAR PERSONAL THOUGHT" - PRES. LOWELL | 6/21/1921 | See Source »

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