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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope further that the success of the exhibition may bring lasting benefits not to the empire only but to mankind in general. No nation or group of nations can isolate itself from the main stream of modern commerce, and if this exhibition leads to greater development of the material resources of the empire and expansion of trade, it will at the same time be raising the economic life of the world from the disorganization caused...
...After various sinking funds shall have been cared for, covering the return of the main Government investment, the Government shall receive the bulk of the profits, which proportion after ten years shall amount to 75% to the Government and 25% to the company on fertilizer...
...interest. No. 2 Committee (Chairman Reginald McKenna, head of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, previously Chancellor of the Exchequer under Premier Herbert H. Asquith), had as its purpose to compute the value of German capital exported abroad and report on the means of "repatriating" such funds. The main findings of No. 2 Committee were...
...work of moving the huge Baldwin Locomotive Works from Philadelphia to Eddystone is well under way. The historic locomotive company has grown up with modern Philadelphia, and now occupies over 11½ city blocks. One block will probably be retained and improved as a main office and public auditorium. The rest of the ground sites will be sold as soon as the present factories are removed...
...main features of the Finance Committee version are: ¶ Restoration of the original surtax rates proposed by Secretary Mellon (maximum surtax 25%; normal tax 3% up to $4,000, 6% on $4,000 and more...