Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...millions in five years which U. S. taxpayers would have to meet. The annual cost of handling the U. S. mails is about 800 millions. Postal deficits are due to the fact that not all postal rates cover equitably the cost of the service rendered. The Post Office makes money on handling first-class letter mail, on postal savings, on its registry service. It loses on second-class matter (newspapers, magazines), fourth-class (parcels post), rural free delivery, air and marine mail. The only loss which President Hoover considers justifiable is on air mail which he feels is still...
Back in 1914 when U. S. War-Correspondent Richard Harding Davis looked out of his Brussels hotel window to find the streets flowing with the quiet grey river of General von Bissing's soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper marks planted in their place. In 1918, with the fall of Imperial Germany, these marks became worthless. All through the long meetings of the Second Dawes Commission this year, peppery Emile Franqui, chief of the Belgian delegation, insistently demanded that redemption of the worthless marks be included in the Young...
Laborite C. Roden Buxton objected: "This is spending too much money on other people...
...many years Founder C. A. Taylor and his Farm Life made money. Many a farm implement, fertilizer, chicken brood, hog litter was advertised in its pages. When circulation reached 750,000, Founder Taylor became even more ambitious. "We can have 1,000,000 circulation," said he. Highly-paid salesmen solicited subscriptions. Premiums were offered. A million circulation for Farm Life became a civic goal in Spencer. At last the goal was reached, passed. Farm Life had 1,115,000 subscribers listed...
...highly paid solicitors and premiums, Publisher Taylor discovered, bring circulation only-not "reader acceptance." And reader acceptance is what money-spending advertisers want. So Farm Life's advertising did not keep pace with its circulation...