Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promotion was one of merit, prime Hoover administrative policy. In the Department of Commerce, Mr. Young created the present system of enforcing air commerce rules, inspection, license of civil aircraft, licensing of pilots and mechanics. Last week, before his promotion, he announced new, strict rules for transport pilots. After Sept. 1 they must get their licenses renewed every six months. They will get renewals only by reproving their ability at trick takeoffs and landings. They must have flown at least ten hours solo in the types of planes for which they are licensed. And they must be able...
...does not take a war to keep a Secretary of War busy. Though it was Washington's slack season, the present occupant of the Cabinet's No. 3 post?James William Good?last week was more than usually occupied...
Such sallies caused no flicker of a smile on Senator Smoot's worn face. Like a litany he repeated the statistics of the new bill: "... 431 changes . . . 177 increases ... 254 decreases ... 13% of all increases in agricultural schedules. . . . Revenue under present law: $516,581,344; under the House bill: $646,014,545; under the Senate bill...
Chief advantage of domestic valuation: to prevent fraudulent undervaluation of imports. Example: A shotgun sells abroad for $18.18. Its U. S. selling price is $43.30. The duty in the present bill is $6 plus 45% ad valorem. Valued at its foreign selling price, it will pay a duty of about $14.18. By applying U. S. valuation ($43.30) and maintaining the duty at $14.18, the ad valorem rate would be scaled down to about 18.89%. The remoteness, the complexity, the juggling opportunities of this valuation plan weighed heavily against its ultimate adoption...
...necked Plutarco Elias Calles, also a two-fisted idealist (TIME, Nov. 19, 1923, et seq.). Little was heard of it then. Printed on 160 single-spaced pages the Fortes Gil Labor Code is too complex for one Mexican in 1,000 to grasp. Basically it aims to displace the present ill-coordinated State labor laws with a sweeping Federal system of drastic potency. Passage of the necessary Constitutional amendment last week gives the President a free hand to railroad enactment of his pet Labor Code through Congress...