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...Guffey Act was to revive the NRA Coal Code. To do so it: 1) imposed a 15% tax on coal production but granted a rebate of all but one-tenth of the tax to producers who abided by the coal code; 2) directed that the code should stipulate minimum wages and hours of labor in the mines; 3) empowered the code to fix minimum and, in some cases, maximum prices for coal...
...depressed, thereby closing an electric circuit. A double wire runs down the sword, up the performer's sleeve, down to his belt and along the strip to a reel, which gives the wire enough play for the fencer's movements, and thence to a control box. One-tenth of a second after a touch closes the circuit, a bell tinkles and a light flashes simultaneously on the judge's table, indicating which contestant has scored the point...
...codger in an unfashionable full-skirted coat and pigtail who frequently jostled his way to High Street Market to sell baskets of eggs and vegetables from his farm in Passyunk Township, three miles southwest of the city. Solid burghers, however, recognized him as the man who paid one-tenth of Philadelphia's real estate taxes, who had in 1814 subscribed to 95% of the U. S. Government's unpopular $5,000,000 war loan. Clergymen were painfully aware that he read the French rationalists, owned 18 ships bearing such names as Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Helvetius. One morning...
...Cleveland district. In the past few weeks wholesalers have been swamped with orders. That curious figure, the Fairchild index of Buyers' Arrivals in Manhattan, was nearly 15% above the same week a year ago. Retail merchandise deliveries in the New York metropolitan area, comprising at least one-tenth of the total U. S. retail market, were up 10% for the first two weeks of this month. Except in flood regions, where there would be little if any, Easter trade was expected to be the best in years...
...despite the I.C.C. order, President Clement's outlook on life remained cheerful. The Pennsylvania has paid cash dividends in every year since its formation in 1847. The Pennsylvania System comprises, broadly speaking, about one-tenth of U. S. railroads. It takes in about one-tenth of the total railroad operating income. It operates a little over one-tenth of the total cars and locomotives. Its books carry about one-tenth of the total railroad investment. It handles rather more than one-tenth of total railroad traffic. Like other roads, the Pennsylvania has seen its income, largest of any road...