Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this terse encouraging prelude Mr. S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General of Reparations, announced last week on the second anniversary of the inauguration of the Dawes Plan, that he has received this year 1,211,950,000 gold marks ($288,444,100) in reparations payments. For the first time a portion of the transfers were made in cash, totaling 65,000,000 gold marks, of which the U. S. received $5,904,770. This sum amounts to roughly 2½% of the total of $245,000,000 scheduled for payment to the U. S. within 20 years under the Dawes Plan...
...provided in the Dawes Plan that the Allies shall be given a share in the tax surplus. Irate German editors bewailed "this excess of taxation, now to be wasted in reparations payments." Harassed, Finance Minister Reinhold sought Agent Gilbert. Between them they arrived at an amiable compromise whereby a portion of these surplus reparations will be remitted to Germany in consideration of her punctuality to date...
...This should have no effect upon the major portion of the bondholders of the Miller firm. They have their bonds, the property is there and they should be perfectly secured."-Vice President C. C. Moore, American Bond & Mortgage...
Western railroads wanted a general freight rate increase of 5 percent; the Interstate Commerce Commission investigated for more than a year and last week said, "No." Its report asserted that, "so far as the major portion of the western district is concerned, no financial emergency exists...
...homeopathic ideas. Samuel C. F. Hahnemann (1755-1843) worked out the principle of similars-a large dose of a drug gave the same symptoms on the healthy human body as did a certain disease. Therefore that disease and that drug poisoned the body similarly. If a minute portion of the drug were given to a patient so diseased, the minute portion would stimulate the body to resist the disease. By "proving," by testing out on healthy humans the whole armamentarium of drugs, the homeopaths worked out a, vast array of drugs specific for practically every disease symptom. The regular school...