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...Dominions and Colonies in the shape of materials. Materials, such as machinery, rails, structural steel, cement, etc., would call for increased labor in the Dominions to put 'them to practical use and thereby increase production or real worth. The Dominions would then be placed in a position to repay the credits granted to them by the Mother Country. The house of cards falls, however, unless the Dominions are assured of a market for their increased production. That is what the Imperial Conference is now discussing and why Imperial Preference is necessary to the economic welfare of the British Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Imperial Conference | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

After five minutes' deliberation the jury acquitted Parker and the Court told him to repay the money when able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In France | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

...went into a bank to borrow money for the development of a newspaper enterprise, I would not say: ' I will pay what interest 1 please, I will give such security as I think best and I will repay when I feel like it.' If I did, I wouldn't get the money."?William Randolph Hearst, discoursing on the recognition of Mexico and on the problem of how Mexico is to borrow needed capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whitlock Returning | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...That 200 of the remainder be set aside as a reserve and that a "given number" of these be equipped with Diesel engines instead of oilburning equipment. This would improve their efficiency by 25% and make it possible soon to repay money borrowed from the Shipping Board's construction loan fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Next Move | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...settles down to decide the fate of nations or debate the tariff question no one ever hears of it. And as for reading the newspapers--if he does he merely learns of his own idiosyncrasies, and if he doesn't, he misses very little. Possibly three or four newspapers repay him for his efforts to find the news with some adequate content. In the rest, he delves between Raymond's advertisements--quite the most amusing feature usually and Zonite, to discover at last that the Yale sophomores have presented the freshman with an ancient and, doubtless, honorable fence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: L'ENFANT TERRIBLE | 6/6/1923 | See Source »

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