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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against the size of the Army (118,750 men, 12,000 officers) but against its overhead was the President's complaint leveled. Army officers were ready with explanations: the U. S. soldier is better paid, better fed, better housed, better equipped than the soldier of any other nation. Surplus war supplies are running low, necessitating fresh purchases. Continuing programs for aviation and housing add to Army cost...
...prohibit clearance papers for U. S. liquor cargoes, explaining that such a prohibition would "drive the traffic underground, saddle us with heavy expenses and do our neighbors no good." Continued the Dominion official: "Liquor in Canada, whether we may like it or not. is legal merchandise. Once liquor has paid the excise, it is as free as other legal commodities ... for exportation." "...Our citizens would be corrupted [if export liquor were outlawed] the traffic would be diffused. . . . The Canadian law would be violated and the duty would be laid on the Government of Canada to maintain a greatly augmented preventive...
Business must sometimes subordinate itself to Politics. Seven weeks ago John Pierpont Morgan and other international big tycoons finished drafting at Paris the so-called Young Plan, embodying their potent recommendations as to how German Reparations may best be paid through an International Bank of Settle-ment (TIME, March 25, et seq.). Politicians representing Germany and the Creditor Powers must now accept or reject the tycoons' advice. Last week, after a month of spirited bickering among European chancellories, it was decided to hold a "Political Reparations Conference" in mid-August at The Hague. The immaculate, aristocratic capital of Queen...
...Lambert Pharmacal issue at 41¾, Woolworth at 55, May Dept. Stores at 50, Continental Can at 52½, S. H. Kress at 60, Sears Roebuck at 50, United Biscuit at 28. Special pride is taken in National Dairy Products, issued three years ago at 33. The stock has paid a 33⅓-stock dividend, followed by a 100% stock dividend, is now selling at 78. One of the original $33 shares has become worth $624. Brilliant also has been the record of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Goldman Sachs Co.'s own investment trust. Issued last December...
Land Boom. The land boom aftermath consists in the principal of notes, made in boom times, falling due and not being paid. Frozen assets in the shape of uncollectable paper have put many a Florida bank in a tight position...