Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a Public Buildings Bill providing $150,000,000 to be spent at the rate of $25,000,000 a year for the next five years (see below). (Went to Senate...
...vote of 225 to 153, returned to the Senate the Postal Pay and Rate Increase Bill (TIME, Feb. 9) refusing to act on it on the ground that the Senate has no authority to initiate a revenue measure...
...actually provide the money therefore. To secure the money, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General must go to Congress and ask specific appropriations, and Congress will have the opportunity of refusing the money if it does not approve their projects. But the effect, at any rate, is to take the initiative out of the hands of Congress and place it in the hands of two members of the Cabinet...
...Freight Rates. The Progressives want a uniform freight rate applicable to all sections of Canada and apparently Premier King's past flirtations with the Progressives have resulted in his agreement to the measure. This subject is extremely intricate and is virtually a fight between politics and the Canadian Pacific Railway, but whether it is practical politics is doubtful...
...producing only two children per family. If America depends for its college students upon the descendants of the present graduates within a few generations our colleges will be empty. Either that or we will have to Lower the requirements for entrance. A thousand Harvard graduates at the present birth-rate will be represented at the end of six by only 50 descendants--hardly enough to make a good lee club. But at the present birth-rate 1000 of some of the lower sections of the population will be represented by 100,000 descendantal. Our recent immigrants, no difference that race...