Word: janning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Valuation. The cost of an article abroad (foreign value) is now used to assess ad valorem duties. The Finance Committee voted to change the system to domestic or U. S. valuation?then crossed its fingers and postponed the effective date to Jan. 1, 1932. Domestic value is "the price at which imported merchandise is freely offered for sale in the principal markets of the U. S. in wholesale quantities." The committee's purpose was to change the system of valuation without changing the scale of protection. The Tariff Commission was ordered to calculate the conversion and submit to Congress...
...realized in other countries-is swift, complete evacuation of the 60,000 Allied troops still occupying the Rhineland. Last week the short, soft fingers of the statesman from Berlin seemed to have virtually within their stubby grasp an Anglo-French agreement to evacuate the Rhineland at the latest by Jan...
...Jugoslavia has a son, Great Britain's Duke of York packs his bags and travels to Belgrade to act as Godfather and represent the British Royal Family at the christening. He went when Crown Prince Peter was christened, he went again when Prince Tomislav was christened (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But last week when Queen Marie's third son was about to be christened at Castle Bled, the Duke of York, though invited, stayed at home, delegated his second cousin, onetime Queen Elizabeth of Greece, to be chief sponsor in his place...
...following list gives 20 stocks labelled with various degrees of certainty as Morgan Stocks. It shows a wide diversity of Morgan interests, a wide diversity of Morgan profit. The stock prices given are respectively the closing prices on Jan. 2, 1929 and the closing prices on Aug. 17, no allowance being made for rights issued in the intervening period...
...make the day of christening doubly joyful King Alexander decreed the pardon of several prominent Slovenes arrested since His Majesty proclaimed himself Dictator of Jugoslavia (TIME, Jan. 14). There was only one jarring note, significant, typically Balkan...