Word: payment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Subscriber Roe, congratulations on his luck, and the information that a 10-year subscription to TIME may be had upon payment of $30, a reduction of $20 from the annual rate...
...read them and understand them." 6) "Vigilant economy and inflexible refusal to authorize any economic enterprise not considered vital." Clearly the stringency of this Six Point Cycle means that // Duce will not stop short of so-called "Wartime measures" to ensure the fiscal recovery of Italy and prompt payment of her war debts. Ceaseless and ever potent must be Finance Minister Mosconi's fecund activity. Inspiring to him, last week, was the fact that Italy's germinal grain fields are now sprouting and flourishing with an activity announced to promise bumper crops. So impetuously potent is the grain...
Bibles may be imported into the U. S. without payment of customs duties. Other books are taxed at the rate of 15%. In 1924 Lincoln MacVeagh, president of the Dial Press, brought one copy of the Apocrypha of the Nonesuch Bible to the U. S. from England and was taxed thereon 15%. Saying that the books of the Apocrypha were parts of the Bible, Mr. MacVeagh sued the U. S. to get back his money...
...levied upon the farmer's product any where between the field it grew in and the place where it was consumed. Naturally, at whatever point in the commodity's progress from farmer to consumer the fee was levied, the commodity's price would rise automatically. Ultimate payment of the fee would thus be by the consumer, not by the producer. In other words, the "equalization fee" was not a self-help device for the farmers but a subtle sales tax upon the whole country. The "equalization fee" was to be levied on imports, also. It thus became...
...known onetime citizen and proud too of the pioneers, less spectacular but no less hardy than their pacemakers beyond the Mississippi, who came long ago to settle in the "middle border," Sculptor Taft conceived the idea of making a statue for the village green, requiring for his work no payment. It was nonetheless necessary for Elmwood's 1200 denizens to raise $17,000 to pay for the material costs of the statue and the cost of erecting it. This they...