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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcing adjournment, the Commission also announced the assumption of new work. Last winter Congress passed a resolution (TIME, Feb. 9, CONGRESS), directing the Commission to make an inquiry with a view to lowering freight rates on agricultural products suffering from price depression. Recently, Western railroads asked for an 11% increase in rates. On Sept. 1, the commission will begin an inquiry in the Western district with three objects: 1) To find out what agricultural products need lower freight rates; 2) to determine what reductions may be made in such rates; 3) to ascertain on what products freight rates...
Writing to The New York World, General Feng-Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," said: "We Chinese have been butchered ruthlessly by the British," who "have treated the Chinese people as though the latter were lower than hens and dogs...
...general, where wages are lower, hours of work are longer, and vice versa...
...this time of year, but scarcely such a large one. At the close of February last, unfilled orders of the Steel Corporation aggregated 5,284,771 tons- the highest point reached since August 31, 1923. But during this spring the figure has fallen steadily until it is now lower than since October...
...render 1925 a much less profitable year to wheat growers than 1924. Yet a mammoth corn crop is now apparently under way, and also a cotton crop of unusual magnitude. From the standpoint of domestic conditions, corn is our most important crop. Cotton is a good export crop, and lower prices should prove of considerable international significance-particularly to England, whose cotton industry has long been depressed by high raw cotton prices. England needs, more than anything else, a revival of her export trade, in which cotton fabrics formerly composed a tremendously important item. With cheaper and more abundant...