Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roads as a whole in each territorial group, the interstate Commerce Commission has a mandate from Congress that rates shall be established at a level which will insure a return of to 1-2 to 6 per cent on the value of the properties held for and used in the service of transportation. Rates, both passenger and freight, have been substantially advanced with that end in view. But as the new rates are based on the 5 1-2 to 6 per cent return for the railroads as a whole in each large group they will yield more than...
...latter may propose. With the two chiefly concerned nations in agreement, some remedy for the situation may soon be found. Such a result is to be hoped for. If Germany could be made to see that her present tactics are futile, she might finally settle down to a steadier level of action, and become a reductive agent in the markets of the world. But further procrastination is apt to be disastrous to the Allie's and Germany as well...
...doctrine. That England is justified in her actions has nothing to do with the value of a system. Nor is she justified in shirking her responsibility as to maintaining justice. It is anything but a credit to England that her police should have to descend to the level of reprisals; as an administration of justice the method in itself marks it; failure...
...does not seem a satisfactory answer to his charges of profits as high as three and four hundred per cent, to say the cost of the sandwich has gone up two or three hundred per cent since 1914. The charge is made with full consideration of today's price level. The answer is beside the point. The restaurant owners, when asked what percentage they are making, reply that they do not know. A business man knows what his profits are when he so chooses. One owner replied this: "They are lower than they ever have been." This means nothing...
...would be unreasonable to ask that she stand aside, handicapped, and watch Germany make ingratiating bide for the trade markets which should be hers. Such a course would be willful suicide. Consequently Premier Delacroix is insisting forcibly that England wait until conditions in France reach their normal level before unbarring the gates to Germany. His demands are absolutely justified...