Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year's low of 52% (Aug. 10) and 90% last year at this time. Unfortunate last week was a roseate report by Dow-Jones that U. S. Steel's opera tions had risen to 66%. Quickly the Steel Corporation refuted this, said operations were unchanged at 63%. Scotsmen. Said the leader of the Aber deen, Scotland, Chamber of Commerce, of which 35 members are touring the U. S.: "If you want to see a good depression just come to Scotland; it's chronic over there...
...Last week Treasury officials compiled figures, frankly told Pressmen that they were quite helpless about a continuation of the 1% reduction for 1930 incomes. For the first 50 days of this fiscal year, U. S. revenue had fallen off $64,261,211 compared with last year, while expenditures had risen some $29,000,000. Customs receipts had been almost halved. Instead of a tax cut, a deficit loomed...
...total salary of $2,899. These rates are based on the military pay law of 1908, as revised by War bonuses and the hastily passed law of 1922. In 1929 a pay board representing the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard determined that while living costs since 1908 had risen 104%, U. S. officers pay had risen only 11%, and junior officers' pay had decreased about 2%. Under the bonus system, a certain lieutenant is now receiving $6,357 a year, $138 more than his rear admiral; a certain Chief Petty Officer (noncommissioned) is receiving more than the commander...
Month ago news reached Angora (Turkish capital) that the Kurds, a warlike backward race inhabiting a region which overlaps both Turkey and Persia, had risen in rebellion against the reforms of Turkish Dictator Mustapha Kemal Pasha. They had declared a Holy War. Dictator Kemal knew what to do. He ordered 15,000 regular troops, 15,000 reserves and Turkey's entire air force to the front, commanded them to exterminate without mercy every single Kurdish rebel...
...profit) there were only 55,000 automobiles registered, 6.908.000 bbl. of gasoline produced in the U. S. Last year there were 26,501,000 automobiles registered, 447,-000,000 bbl. of gasoline produced. The sale of lubricating oil in this period, said Mr. Sheets, had risen only 4½ times, the production in gasoline 64 times...