Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Total internal debt: 271,018,000,000 francs or, at present rate of exchange, about $15,500,000,000. The actual value of the internal debt in terms of dollars must, however, be placed at a higher figure. The lower the franc falls the less is the value of the debt; and as the franc is more likely to improve in future, the dollar value of the debt must be figured at from 20 to 25 billions...
Whatever steps may be necessary to restore balance. Efforts to reduce taxes, give steady employment and stabilise business, lower freight rates, secure sounder and more economical marketing to bring the prices of what the farmer buys nearer to the prices of what he sells. A protective tariff on farm products. Establishment of a Federal system of cooperative marketing without putting the Government into business...
...touch of green, rising from lawn to treetop beneath a little pink spire, where three high roads cross, marks the spot where English begins to be spoken as one walks west from the lower East side of Manhattan: St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie...
...crops, and in consequence the Government's condition estimates are placed at very low figures. For Winter wheat, con dition is estimated at only 74% - the lowest since 1917 when the figure of 70.9 was reached. Even worse is the estimate of condition of Spring wheat at 82.3-lower than any year for twelve years, and considerably under the 88.2 figure of 1916. Acreages have also been reduced sharply; that of Winter wheat is 53,818,000 compared with 58,253,000 last year, while that for Spring wheat is 16,920,000 against 18,786,000 last year...
...graduates and the three lower classes will meet in front of Holworthy and Massachusetts Halls to march to the Stadium for the exercises...