Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to get better terms. Others declared that Italy was doing well economically, had great resources. How, they asked, is it that a bankrupt is able to get a loan of $100,000,000 from J. P. Morgan & Co.? And how is it that she can pay a high rate of interest, 7% or 8%, to J. P. Morgan yet is not able to pay our government any interest for five years, only ⅛% for the next ten years, aned Italy. The figures as to Italy's wealth and resources had been verified by the U. S. Commission. Mr. Mills...
...perhaps inevitable in an age of prompt publicity that many a trivial incident should reach the general world in a halo or with horns. At any rate eager reporters--sometimes play fairy godmother to publicity agents. One of these, Harry Reichenbach, has just begun a series of articles of which the first appears in the current "Liberty", a bit gloating in manner, but none the less picturesque...
...rate, there are numerous-inscriptions to be recovered. The more of these sources our experts have for study and comparison, the easier will be the task of deciphering the many hieroglyphs that still baffle...
...persistent campaign, which the press has waged for over a year, in behalf of a sweeping reduction of taxes has created the general impression that the present rate of taxation has been hurting industry, and that Administration economy has so greatly lessened federal expenditures that high taxes are no longer necessary...
...this has been due chiefly to the super-taxes on high incomes, which Congress is now proposing to abolish in part. These exactions though admittedly heavy, have proved more annoying than crushing; Industry reached its highest peak of post-war prosperity last year, thus showing conclusively that the present rate of taxation is not putting too much of a strain on business. The government can turn the prosperity of the times to advantage, by keeping taxation at its present level...