Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States. These events are too closely interrelated to have just happened so. The evidence is that tax reduction, to which Mr. Coolidge has pledged himself, is dependent upon an immediate commencement of gold shipments from France, since the administration realizes that no amount of official parsimony will suffice to lower individual taxes to the point the public demands...
...bills cannot then be amended by either house, but must be accepted or rejected as a whole. Since the Conservatives are soon to control the lords and at least a third of the Commons, the Conservatives will be assured of a majority in case a Socialist majority in the lower house tries to change in a radical manner the present system of government...
...there was a Captain Benjamin Leavitt, who was not content that this paltry 30 fathoms should be set as a lower limit to his activities. In 1922 he bought a ship, the Blakely, from the Shipping Board. He fitted her out for diving and salvaging, and laid in an equipment of patent diving suits of manganese bronze (which resists salt water corrosion), with flexible parts of interlocking copper tubing and ball bearing joints, with portable air equipment, carrying a four-hour supply of oxygen and a telephone...
...announcement that the historic Mills Building on Broad Street, lower Manhattan, abutting the Morgan office building, will be torn down, has caused more widespread interest than usually attends such an operation...
...York Federal Reserve Bank, centre of the Wall Street money market, at about the same time finished its magnificent new headquarters-also at practically peak building prices. But until recently, J. P. Morgan & Co. merely put some inexpensive iron fire-escapes on the Mills Building and waited for lower building costs. Evidently those have come into sight, for J. P. Morgan & Co. have now transferred the leasehold to the Equitable Trust Co., which intends to erect on the Mills Building site a 34-story office building. Construction will start in the spring of 1926, and should be completed...