Word: importent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statistics to show that although hours of work have decreased 6% since 1913, the buying power of Labor's wages has increased and is several times that in other parts of the world. This he attributed to restriction of immigration and protective tariff. "We do not need to import any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of Government, the American brand of equality and the American brand of wages...
Evacuation. The last exchange of letters between French, Belgians and Germans was of considerable import ance. In order to allow the Germans to meet their Opposition with concrete advantages obtained from the Conference, MM. Herriot, Theunis and Hymans wrote to Chancelor Marx: "At the moment approaching the close of the London Conference, which marks an important effort to establish a regime of international concord, the French and Belgian governments, desirous of giving immediate and spontaneous proof of their will to peace and their confidence in the engagements freely entered into, decide that they will order, on the day following...
...although a highly illuminative book. Again, they are probably the greatest authorities on municipal affairs in Britain and certainly the greatest Socialist-economists of their time. It is said of them that they have such a mastery of detail that they can quote from memory the export and import figures for any commodity in any given year...
...that purpose- banners, books, altar carpets, stained glass, tiled floors, sanctuary lamps, "full of traditional design and symbolism but signifying little." There are interesting photographs of architectural projects as well as the architectural manifestations of the exposition itself. The art of the Theatre is more historical than contemporary in import, as Gordon Craig, Lovat Eraser and others of the modern theorists are absent. There are contemporary drawings of David Garrick, and stage designs by John Webb and Inigo Jones, 1650, a Shakespeare first folio, the program of an amateur performance of the Merry Wives in which Dickens and Cruikshank took...
...present position of Reserve earnings is due to several factors. The Reserve Banks erected large buildings, the cost and maintenance of which have added to their expenses. The task of warehousing the tremendous gold resources of the system is expensive and without profit. Moreover, the steady import of gold, along with other factors, has enabled the member banks to pay off their debts to the Reserve Banks whose current earnings have in consequence declined. To operate at a profit the twelve Reserve Banks must have about $1,000,000,000 outstanding in loans; the last earning statement showed earning assets...