Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satisfy these objectors, the Gooding bill was passed. It forbids the Interstate Commerce Commission to grant lower long haul rates than short haul rates except under specific conditions: 1) where the freight transported is for export or from import and 2) where two railroads compete in the same territory, but one has a circuitous route to a given destination (that is, the road with the circuitous route is allowed to make its rate as low as that of the line with the straight route; 3) for block express...
...bill forbidding lower long haul rates except under these conditions was passed by the Senate, 54 to 23. It is extremely dubious whether it will come before the House at this session. The question is important, because on long and short haul rates depend the geographical distribution of many industries, and the industrial growth of communities and of entire sections of the country...
...Adopted a resolution laying down for the Interstate Commerce Commission "the true policy in rate-making," declaring that agriculture is a basic industry and directing the commission to lower rates on farm products as much as is "compatible with the maintenance of adequate transportation service...
...latest decree of the Soviet Government of Russia, Which eliminates nearly one hundred thousand students of non-proletarian origin from high schools and colleges, seems to be an unfortunate continuation of the Communist policy of destroying the bourgeois class. In aiming to provide educational facilities for students in the lower walks of life, the Soviet authorities are working with a beneficent intent, but in persisting in elevating one class at the expense of another, their wisdom is more than doubtful. The Communists have apparently discovered, however, that one of the best ways to keep opponents out of power...
...pound race began late in the afternoon under excellent weather conditions. Harvard and Princeton took the lead from Yale at the very outset, but after the high start stroke had been dropped by all three, it was found that Yale was rowing a stroke two beats lower than either the Crimson or the Orange and Black. At the half-mile mark both had open water on the Elis. From this point on Princeton weakened, Harvard remained the same, and Yale improved...