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...said that two-thirds of the Government fleet could be put into commission at a maximum cost of $5 a ton, deadweight, and at least half of it ultimately sold to foreign buyers at $10 a ton less than they can now build similar vessels...
...Shipping Board, guaranteeing to operate them immediately and to deposit an initial payment of $90,000 in escrow in a responsible bank. The offer was rejected by Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board on the ground that the bid was below the minimum selling price of $30 per deadweight ton fixed by the Board's policy. Mr. Lasker said he would consider the sale if the union would meet the minimum requirements...
Other facts in Mr. Baldwin's speech: Last year's surplus was $471,975,000 and had already been applied to a reduction of debt. The deadweight national debt at March 31,1922, was approximately $35,460,900,000; at March 31, 1923, it stood at the approximate figure of $36,144,450,000; paradoxically the national debt had been decreased by about $695,000,000, the increase being due to interior disturbing factors. The external debt stood at about $5,156,935,560 at the end of the financial year 1921-1922; this year it is about...
Moreover, men are only taken onto the Faculty of the University when they are too old to have that progressive spirit which is the foundation of healthy radicalism. This means that the institution becomes over-conservative," a deadweight .... around the necks of the American people." The student life also tends towards this ultra stand-patism. The sons of rich and influential families are too important in proportion to their innate worth...
...scientific knowledge of the subject; and Lister at $20 a dozen lessons was nowhere. The lecture-room had a raised platform at one end, on which the Professor stood, and the walls were adorned with prints of ancient and modern athletes. There were Herr Milo, of Croton, the renowned deadweight lifter; M. Dares and P. Entellus, as they stood in the ring on the 12th of April, 1182 B. C., drawn by P. Virgil Maro, "Clipper" correspondent; Professor Socrates, in his great standing feat; portraits of Mr. Aristotle, Mr. Leibnitz, and Mr. Kant, all noted boxers...