Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiscal 1929 preparatory to laying them before President Coolidge at Brule next month. Secretary Mellon began by talking about the biggest figures of all on the national ledger-the national debt. It had been reduced by $907,000,000, bringing it down to $17,604,000,000. The average rate of interest paid upon it had been reduced during the year from 3.96% to 3.87%, a saving of $55,000,000. Secretary Mellon had predicted that the surplus of receipts over expenditures would be about $405,000,000. He was within if % of the mark. Receipts were...
...Chamber of Commerce of Jersey City, N. J., last week named a committee to investigate charges reiterated by one James Burkitt, shockheaded, stump-speaking realtor, that Jersey City's high tax rate is the result of a corrupt stranglehold upon Jersey City politics held by Mayor Frank Hague, Democratic boss (TIME...
...rate war loomed as anxious presidents noted that under the joint schedule of the Illinois Central and the Redwood Line, manufacturers could ship steel from Chicago to New Orleans (912 miles) as cheaply as from Buffalo to New York (390 miles). "Unduly preferential," they cried, technically. They explained: Eastern railroads should serve Eastern shippers, benefiting by short rail hauls to the Atlantic, low water rates to the Pacific. Cutthroat reductions by the I.C.R.R. will divert traffic to Chicago, thence to New Orleans, thence by the Redwood Line to the coast...
...decreased business for local, branch line, short-haul services. With Satisfaction, retorted Interstate Commerce Commissioner Frank McManamy, insisting that short-haul freight, short-distance passenger service, brings little or no profit to railroads. With Determination, compromised R. H. Ashton, president of the American Railway Association, adding motor competition to rate reductions, rising costs, on the list of urgent problems...
...that time he was neither particularly "Slim" nor conspicuously "Lucky," and by no stretch of the imagination was he either a "Lone Eagle" or "Flying Fool." He might have been called "Lindy" but possibly that was insufficiently picturesque. At any rate, when somebody corrupted his name into "Limburger" it appealed to the schoolboy sense of humor and was soon abbreviated into "Cheese," which stuck as long as he remained at Friends...