Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quota of 50 per year. Duty-free sugar imports to the U. S. will be limited to 850,000 tons per year, cocoanut oil to 200,000 tons, cordage fibre to 3,000,000 Ib. To give Filipinos a taste of the tariff, collection of an island export tax equal to 5% of the U. S. tariff rate on different goods will begin in the sixth year, rise to 25% in the tenth. On July 4 following the ten-year period the President will proclaim the Philippines a sovereign commonwealth and the U. S. will withdraw all civil...
...These prove to me that the people have an advanced conception of the modern rules of life and that they are capable of establishing and maintaining rules of conduct equal or superior to those found in many of the old and independent nations...
...months ago, in a lively referendum from ocean to ocean, the people of the U. S. chose their own Man of the Year, and clearly the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the Presidency was without equal elsewhere in the world as an individual accomplishment. To millions & millions of "forgotten men'' he was a big-jawed, happy Messiah whose "new deal" would somehow put money into everybody's-pocket. To himself, victory was the sweet reward of long years of careful planning, unremitting work...
Technocracy presumes that all the wealth and functions of Society can be calculated in terms of energy unity?British Thermal Units, kilogramme calories, joules, ergs, footpounds, horsepower. Upon that presumption was started the "Energy Survey of North America," in which one man's time for eight hours is considered equal to 1,500,000 footpounds. Technocracy headquarters, which now has few cartographers at work, has energy charts of about 50 U. S. industries ready for display, talks about 300 charts too significant for revelation, promises 3,000 charts eventually...
...charts, say the Technocrats, show or will show that the present price system will not work. What will work is a world managed by Technocrats wherein everyone does an equal and rather small amount of work (say 12½ hours a week for 20 years) and enjoys an equal and very large income?in goods provided by the state or obtained by an exchange of "erg" tokens...