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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...percentage of impurities in virtually all new mined coal going to market, charges the American, runs from 25 to 40%. The normal rate of impurities allowed by decent trade custom and considered unavoidable when coal is honestly prepared for market is from 2 to 4% in the large domestic sizes up to 10% in the steam sizes...
Therefore, according to the Hearst argument, where domestic coal has been sold at an average retail rate of $16 a ton, the purchaser has been swindled out of from...
...immigrants in seven months. The remarkable case, however, is that of the United Kingdom, which for the first time since the passing of the restrictive immigration law promises to fill its quota-the largest of any nation. English, Scotch, Welsh and Irish immigrants are now arriving at the rate of 2,800 a week. If this immigration should continue, it would twice fill the British quota of 77,342 in the course of a year...
...Negro tunes so extensively in his compositions, has given to The Kansas City Star a statement that will seem to many a strange pronouncement. Powell does not think that Negro music can figure considerably in the development of an American national school of music. Says The Star: "At any rate, Powell does not believe they (Negro spirituals) can justly be made the basis of a national American school -because, he declares, there is not the least kinship between the Negro and the descendants of the first English settlers, who still are presumed to boil highest in our melting...
...regards the financial side of telephone work for a man who has just obtained his A.B. degree, the first month's wages are usually at the rate of about $27 a week...