Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sugar industry (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah) complains that it cannot meet competition from Cuba and the Philippines. To protect its market, it would raise the world sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. Cuba, enjoying a 20% differential, would pay $2.40 per 100 Ib. instead of the present rate of $1.76. Such an increase would add $90,000,000 to the annual U. S. sugar bill. Even with this protection, free sugar from the Philippines landed in New York at $3.55 per 100 Ib., would still menace the beet-sugar industry, claimed its leaders. Hence the house committee considered...
...participant in New England's "White Gold Rush" (TIME, April 22). ¶ Editor-in-chief George B. Parker (Scripps-Howard chainpapers) denounced the alleged policy of the power interests in omitting their names from publicity sent out to the press. Let the power men present their side in rate controversies, he went on, under the names of their officials, not under the names of paid press agents. ¶ Reading of Editor Abbot's suggestion, Archibald Robertson Graustein, President of the International Paper Co.-I. P. C. -telegraphed the Society that his company would be glad to cooperate...
...April 22). The Chancellor (Conservative) had abolished the tax on tea which Englishmen have paid grumblingly since the middle of the 17th century, which American colonists refused to pay at their famed "Boston Tea Party." Throughout England last week the retail price of tea- which Britons drink at the rate of 10 Ib. each per annum-fell fourpence a pound (8?), much to the satisfaction of poor and thrifty citizens who would ordinarily vote Laborite. Perhaps some of them will now gratefully vote Conservative. Therefore the angry Labor pixie spat at Conservative Churchill that his latest opus was a "Brib...
...every case in this country he would close half of the women's hospitals in Great Britain. We have come to the conclusion that the maternity benefit provided by the National Health Insurance Act is not at present being administered to the best possible advantage. The present rate of maternity mortality and the amount of sickness among mothers point to the re-organization of these provisions. Proposals therefore are under consideration for making available, for insured women and the uninsured wives of insured husbands, proper medical and midwifery services during pregnancy and childbirth, and to have more cash payments...
...through the National Tuberculosis Association averred that it has been increasing in at least the larger cities. Thirty-eight cities last year recorded 24,471 deaths, 430 more than in 1927. One softening of the picture was that those same cities increased their populations during 1928. So the death rate for 1928 was the same as for 1927, namely...