Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one encouraging word in the Budget, that was Beer. The income tax remained at its old basic tax rate of five shillings in the pound-25%, the highest income tax in the world, though Chancellor Chamberlain offered a slight sop by restoring the old method of collecting in equal half-yearly installments instead of demanding three-quarters of the tax in January, one-quarter in July. The beer tax was reduced a penny a pint and brewers announced that this reduction would be passed on to consumers immediately. Another dispensation was permission to brew strong...
...seemed to be part of the answer. Disputes over broad-gauge rolling stock held at the Soviet end of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, thus crippling service, were growing daily more acute (TIME, April 24). On the other side of the line Soviet troops were reported massing in numbers to equal the Japanese. In both Tokyo and Moscow foreign correspondents hurried from department to department, came to the simultaneous conclusion that all this was largely shadowboxing. A Soviet railroad in Japanese territory is an anomaly. Soviet officials realize this and are willing to sell but want much more money than financially...
...What was his primary purpose? To raise domestic commodity prices and halt the grueling pressure of deflation. If the dollar depreciated 10% in the world market, cotton, for example, should automatically appreciate by the same amount. By cutting the dollar adrift from gold, the U. S. would be on equal monetary footing with Britain and the 34 other powers which have let their currency slip. Out of such equality might grow an international agreement for a new gold standard for world exchange- but at a lower ratio...
With little more than a light workout in prospect, the Varsity lacrosse team opposes the weak Boston University ten at 4 o'clock today on Soldiers Field. The B. U. aggregation was downed by Tech 10-0 in the season opener, while Harvard deluged the Engineers under an equal barrage of goals. To date the Varsity has won over M. I. T. the Boston Lacrosse Club, and Brown by substantial scores, while typing the U. S. Naval Academy and dropping a close skirmish with St. John's, the strongest club in Maryland...
...present a series of three Yard concerts on the steps of Widener at 7 o'clock on Thursday, May 11, 18, and 25. The annual Pops concert at Symphony Hall will be given on May 16. On Thursday of this week 16 members of the club will join an equal number from the Radcliffe Choral Society in singing Brahms "Liebeslieder...