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...credibly reported that in 1907 he refused General Electric Co. permission to import a number of dynamos into Turkey because he had heard that they were machines capable of producing 1,200 revolutions a minute, synonymous in his Ottoman mind with instantaneous and perpetual anarchy...
...tariff battle then wheeled squarely into Schedule Five-the sugar sector, which was passed over earlier because of its especially controversial nature. The four-cornered sugar lineup: domestic beet producers, led by Utah's Senator Smoot, for a 2.75? per Ib. import rate (Cuban: 2.20?); domestic cane producers, led by Louisiana's Senators Ransdell and Broussard, for the House rate of 3? per Ib. (Cuban: 2.40?); unorganized consumers, led by Mississippi's Senator Harrison, for the existing rate of 2.20? per Ib. (Cuban: 1.76?); scattered farm Senators, led by Idaho's Senator Borah...
...realized the full import of that comparison, for none save Mr. Bok's family and the builders knew that at the Tower's base lay the donor's crypt. Last week Calvin Coolidge went back to Mountain Lake and saw Donor Bok interred...
...indeed at the very outset, for when Haiti gained her independence she was forced to indemnify the French planters, and in order to meet these payments she contracted a loan from France, in addition to several internal loans that she already had floated. These loans were secured by her import and export duties, which were her principal source of income. Due to he constant change of administration and the resultant corruption and bribery little was realized from internal taxes and even a large percentage of the customs went to Presidential appointees or favorite generals whose support was needed. Little...
From California's sunny foggy strand to Manhattan's rocky banks went news last week of great import for future air lanes. In California, the West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chose a 1700-acre tract at Sunnyvale, 50 air miles from Mare Island Navy Yard (at San Francisco). This tract was the Board's first choice of an anchorage. Second was some 2,000 acres, near San Diego, a; Camp Kearney recommended for a mooring mast...