Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The bill proposes that the Government create a $200,000,000 export corporation to buy farm produce, principally wheat. It is to buy as much as will bring the price of wheat up to a position in proportion to other prices, such as it held before the War. Tariff rates...
Reports from Detroit stated that the Ford Motor Co. is now selling its cars practically at cost, and that the company's profits come from the sale of spare parts, freight charges and byproducts and from interest accruing upon bank balances and derived from securities. This statement, if accurate...
"These two sets of observations," wrote President Eliot, "one at Mt. Desert and the other at Cambridge, taught me that prohibitory legislation to be effective must be nation-wide, and that only national authority could really prevent both the manufacture and the transportation of intoxicating drinks.... When the results of...
At the same time, one may receive Mr. Mathewa' invention as merely one more of the terrific weapons in that unimaginable armory which will supply the armies of the Next War. We have already gas of such potency that it will lay waste whole cities; the "ray" is not so...
Today the National City is America's largest bank, and predictions have been made that 1924 may see it reach the billion dollar figure in its resources. Yet this growth could be paralled, in proportion, by other large banking institutions of New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and other important American...