Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tried to show that farmers have not suffered from the present tariff. But his figures have been attacked. He said that the articles bought by farmers paid very little tariff, but the answer was made by those who argued last week, that the tariff tends to increase the general level of prices, and what the tariff costs the farmer cannot be gauged alone by the commodities on which he pays duty...
...reduce the tariff by bringing down the level of domestic prices until the farmer can buy at prices in proportion to what he sells. To this proposal the Administration and industry in general, object vigorously?they do not want the price level torn down...
...when she sang the role of the still less irreproachable Lysistrata, and managed to interpret tellingly M. Dantchenko's conception of La Perichole as a child who grows up into a woman through the stress of passion, instead of clinging to the convention which would reduce her to the level of a cheerful strolling band which happened to attract the Viceroy from Madrid...
...question is not whether the stage is better or worse," he said, "but whether it is worse than usual. The stage has followed the course of a toboggan shoot since the time of Greek drama. In England, even Shakespeare and his contemporaries could not bring it back to that level. Playwrights and actors were not recognized socially until. Sir Henry lrving was knighted 20 years ago. England's stage is just recovering from the blow dealt it by the reaction after Cromwell and the Reformation...
...Theory of Price Fixing. About 15% of farm produce is sold abroad. This is the surplus of production over domestic consumption in various commodities. To sell the entire crop, prices have to go down to the foreign level, and this level of late has frequently been below the cost of production. Hence the farmers have suffered. As long as foreign prices remain below our cost of production, the only way farming can be made profitable is to sell no farm produce abroad. This means curtailed production for the time being. The unfortunate fact is that apparently the only...