Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...differential. When sugar was exactly at $6 per 100 lb. the tariff would be $2.20, the present duty, with Cuba paying $1.76. The duty would decline as the price rose to $7.20 per 100 lb. at which point the minimum rate-$1 per 100 lb.-would come into effect. The duty would increase as the price fell below $6 until at $5.20 the maximum rate of $3 would be levied on world imports. Sugar tariff changes would be on a weekly basis, measured by the previous week's average price. The present wholesale price of New York sugar...
...Washington, Sanford Bates, U. S. Superintendent of Prisons, gave these reasons for the Leavenworth uprising: 1) Overcrowding (the penitentiary's capacity is 2,000); 2) Lack of sufficient work; 3) Effect of the heat on drug addicts; 4) News of the New York prison riots...
Alcohol's first effect is euphoria, a sense of wellbeing. Mental inhibitions are released. The drinker is gay. Later comes depression, the narcotic effect of alcohol. However, alcohol is not the only stimulant which acts that way. Strong tea and coffee act the same. So too, tobacco, chloroform, ether...
President of the University of Nevada is Walter Ernest Clark. He personally planned the science school which Mr. Mackay has now endowed with $500,000. In a way the endowment was a certification of President Clark's fitness for office. Last year a scandal-mongering element tried to effect his removal on the allegation that he did not properly protect the students' morals. Investigation suggests that the scandal-mongering originated from the stories of cynical divorce lawyers who have taken out of Reno tall tales of the university students "working their way through college by performing as rich...
Last week Princeton Municipal Improvement, a local corporation run by energetic Princeton alumni, prepared to demolish these eyesores, to make way for a new community centre which will effect a balance of beauty between town and gown. Evicted families have already been provided with newly-built homes...