Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railroad Rates?"The law requires that rates should be just and reasonable. . . . Unless the Government adheres to the rule of making a rate that will yield a fair return, it must abandon rate-making altogether...
...permanent value in establishing agriculture. Simple and direct methods put into operation by the farmer himself are the only real sources of restoration. Indirectly the farmer must be relieved by a reduction of national and local taxation. He must be assisted by the reorganization of the freight rate structure, which could reduce charges on his production. To make this fully effective there ought to be railroad consolidations. Cheaper fertilizers must be provided. . . . Unless we can meet the world market at a profit, we must stop raising for export. Organization would help to reduce acreage...
...Considering our Army and Navy expenditures as "defense insurance," the premium rate is only...
...inches in thickness. To secure good photographs, it is necessary that the telescope should exactly follow the stars. For this purpose, telescopes are provided with a mechanism for counteracting the effect of the rotation of the earth. Since the telescope must be rotated toward the west at the rate of one turn in 24 hours and this with great delicacy, the ball bearings on which the telescope moves must be of the highest type, and all parts of the telescope must be made with great precision. In addition the astronomer must provide his telescope with a special correcting device...
...steel market has proved quiet with prices steady. Production has decreased steadily since Nov. 1, and is now between 5 and 10% under the tonnage rate as of that date. Buyers are inclined to reduce their stocks before the year-end inventories, particularly since their current orders can be promptly and readily filled...