Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collections of the first half of the fiscal year 1924-5, had reduced income tax receipts only about $100, 000,000, which was more than made up by extra collections on other taxes, payments on the foreign debt, disposal of railroad notes and increased tolls of the Panama Canal...
...necessarily mean, as it is sometimes interpreted, to raise rates as high as possible. The object of the Gooding bill is to prevent the railroads from lowering certain rates. The problem came up in 1887 and was referred to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The existence of the Panama Canal has put a new twist in it. The essence of the problem is that under certain conditions it pays the railroads to give cheaper rates on long haul than on short haul freight. The case in question has to do with shipments to the East from the Pacific Coast. In this...
...Passed a bill for the acquisition by the Government, for $11,500,000, of the Cape Cod Canal...
...York University is planning to charter the Shipping Board vessel President Arthur to be used by 450 students and a faculty of 40. The students will complete one year of college work while making a tour around the world. Under naval discipline, they will witness the Panama Canal, Asiatic waters, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, Atlantic ports as far north as Christiania and Bergen...
...level canal at Panama, (TIME, Jan. 28, CABINET...