Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cream Separators. If valued at less than $50, these dairy appliances are now duty free. U. S. manufacturers asked for a 45% duty, cited importers who bring in Belgian separators costing $30 to sell to U. S. farmers at $107. Importers objected, made U. S. manufacturers admit that U. S. made separators costing only $41 are also retailed...
Having pledged its honor to do so, Germany last week came to agreement with Belgium on the nettlesome Belgian Marks issue which for a time threatened to upset the Young Plan for adjusting Reparations (TIME, June...
Back in 1914 when U. S. War-Correspondent Richard Harding Davis looked out of his Brussels hotel window to find the streets flowing with the quiet grey river of General von Bissing's soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper marks planted in their place. In 1918, with the fall of Imperial Germany, these marks became worthless. All through the long meetings of the Second Dawes Commission this year, peppery Emile Franqui, chief of the Belgian delegation, insistently demanded that redemption of the worthless marks be included in the Young...
...annuities shall be paid in cash (Belgian paper francs), in exactly the same manner as Young Plan annuities. In case of a Young Plan moratorium, the Germany-to-Belgium payments shall continue, though in this event payment in kind will be accepted...
Eugene Ysaye, 70, Belgian violinist, lay abed last week in Brussels, his right leg amputated and he, diabetic, in grave condition...