Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats destroyed balance between agriculture, industry and labor. Reduce taxes; lower freight rates; improve marketing; protective tariff on farm products; restore equality of prices between farmers' sales and purchases; Government assistance in cooperative marketing...
Readjustment of freight rates giving lower rates to bulky, low-priced commodities, farm produce, coal, ore, etc., and placing the higher rates upon more valuable, less bulky freight...
...these patents. The suits were hardly filed when the cry of "Politics" went up from the oil companies. Said they, in effect: "The case will come up in the Fall during the campaign and the Administration will try to gather votes by the claim that it is trying to lower the cost of gasoline to consumers." At the Capital it was said that the Department of Justice had been making investigations and preparing the case for over a year. Certain it is that the case has been in preparation for some time; early in June, as soon as the Tariff...
This reduction makes the Army about .065% of the total population, which is a lower percentage, based on official figures, than that of Rumania (about 1.25%) or Yugo-Slavia (about 1%). While criticism is ever facile, it cannot but be noticed that Czecho-Slovakia, who has led Central Europe in peace talk, has at last given proof of her sincerity...
While money rates are now undoubtedly low, there are plenty of precedents for the present situation in recent years. The rates are now undoubtedly lower than at any time since the entry of the U. S. into the War in April, 1917. Yet 60-day time money went for 2% in June, 1914, 2¾ in July, 1913, and 2½ in early months of 1911 and 1912 both, while it touched 1¾ in midsummer, 1908, and 1½ in 1894. Commercial paper similarly was down to 3½ early in 1911, 1912 and 1914, to 3 from...