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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME'S issue of Nov. 26 under the heading of Milestones an item stated that Lala Lajpat Rai, of India, died of heart disease...
...President announced an estimate of a $60,000,000 surplus of revenues over expenditures. The Treasury expects its total receipts for the year to increase about 10 millions over 1929, whereas the Government's total expenditures are figured at 14 millions below 1929. One large item helping this decrease will be 35 millions less to be paid in interest on the public debt, the principal of which will have been reduced by another billion (leaving a total of some 18 billions) by the end of 1929. The Government's running expenses are, in general, on the increase...
...much the smugglers and their customers spend is a matter for guesswork. But Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney-General, was able to put a figure, in her annual report, on at least one item-$18,883,541 worth (Canadian value) of Canadian whiskies exported to the U. S. in 1928. Previous years: 1925, 10.7 millions; 1926, 15.4 millions; 1927, 17.1 millions...
SiriSn No. 16, Vol. XII of your most excellent magazine I find under the heading Leprosy Missionaries" a highly interesting item about the treatment of this malady...
...import side, there were slight declines in the dollar-volume of foodstuffs, raw materials and semi-manufactures, but an increase in manufactures. The manufactures item indicated increased competition from abroad and illustrated that price-reductions were also the cause of shrinkage in dollar-volume of imports. Quantitatively, 1928 imports increased nearly 3% over 1927 and the total was record-breaking...