Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Estimators could show that the new rate would add 100 million dollars to the country's retail sugar bill. The sugar schedule immediately added to the disgruntlement of U. S. farmers who do not look upon the beet sugar industry, with its roaming alien labor, as a legitimate form of U. S. husbandry...
...year, foreign trade nine billions. Of this foreign trade, five billions are in exports, four billions in imports. Of the imports two and one-half billions come in duty free, one and one-half pay tariff. In short, only about 1½% of all U. S. trade is in the form of competing foreign commodities, dribbling over the top of the tariff dam. The dam is important, not because of what comes over it, but because of what it holds out, the domestic prices it impounds and sustains...
...Reserve Board, through its "fear propaganda, warnings, and vague threats," has so filled the capitalists with anxiety, with terror, concerning investments in either stocks or bonds, that this capitalist has put his money not into stocks, not into bonds, but into the call money market- "the safest form of investment known in this country." Furthermore, the more the Reserve Board scolds and harries the Stock Market, the higher the interest rates on call money go and the more attractive becomes the call money market as a destination for surplus funds. Thus the Reserve Board has, against its own intentions, continually...
Whitmore suffered his first defeat of the season yesterday, yielding seven hits, one of them a homer, during his four innings of service. The inexperienced Molloy, who relieved him, showed good form on the mound and promises well for the future. Hensil, Villanova's hurling ace who shut out the Crimson 8 to 0 last year, performed well for the most part and was ably supported by his teammates...
...leading Indian spear-man averages less than 175 feet. In the dual meet last Saturday the Dartmouth man won the event with a throw of 168 feet, with his two teammates both doing over 160 feet. The trials for tomorrow's games, however, showed the Green warriors in better form, the three qualifying men doing 185, 168 and 165 feet respectively...