Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...levy on every bushel of wheat the miller turns to flour, on every pound of pork and beef the packer turns to ham and steak, on every quart of milk and cream that go into butter and cheese, on every pound of cotton the spinner makes into cloth. This processing tax, heart of the Roosevelt relief scheme, is a variable quantity which the Secretary of Agriculture adjusts to bring farm prices up to the desired level. Once they are at pre-War parity, the tax scales off and disappears. Processors pass the tax on to consumers in increased food prices...
Processors Taxed. Also provided was a means of raising the millions & millions to pay farmers for better obedience to the law of supply & demand. The Secretary of the Treasury was to collect a tax, fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture, on the processing of wheat into flour, cotton into cloth, hogs into ham, corn into meal, milk into butter. This tax, which processors were expected to pass on to consumers, must "equal the difference between the current average farm price for the commodity and [its] fair exchange value"- that is, pre-War parity. Thus the wheat processing tax last month...
...article regarding the motion picture entitled The Big Drive. I take particular exception to this picture because having seen it I realize that portions of it are not authentic in certain respects. There is a section of the film which deals with the bombardment of the famous Cloth Hall. Ypres. The scene purporting to show the actual bombardment of this famous building is not true in any sense of the word. The building has no resemblance as shown to the real thing and is a mislabeled shot...
...merits which it extolls; it is simple, homely, realistic. It is a worker's drama laid in a background of steel struts, huge cranes, belching steam-engines, stinking box-cars, wood, sand, and concrete. Rough, eager workers with rugged, seamed faces, and stick-like limbs garbed in coarse cloth toil, sweat, wonder, learn, and finally succeed. The most industrious brigade is awarded a banner, the laurel wreath of the worker's state. There is no pomp or glitter, little enough of comfort, many primitive growls and grunts, but no oratory: the whole tone is rough, sodden, gray, inarticulate. The plot...
Perhaps the books required are the only ones that can possibly be used; but certainly, if this is the case, the University could do something towards obtaining cheaper editions. Fine bindings, cloth paper, colored boxing are all very well for a collection, but a little out of place in texts for daily use. In conclusion, I might point out that several tutoring bureaus will be glad to furnish instruction before will the hour exam (cost, two dollars), and more thorough preparation before the final (cost, five dollars), not to speak of the guarantee of a higher mark. The total cost...