Word: ruinously
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...certain French commodities must pay the maximum U. S. duty, the French contend that certain U. S. goods must pay the maximum French duties. Seemingly there is no way out of the impasse, although it was admitted in responsible quarters that every nerve will be strained to prevent a ruinous tariff...
...Business Hit. The Chinese regime at Nanking which dominates the chief part of China, Shanghai, suddenly increased all tariffs and port dues last week to an extent which local U. S. merchants and shippers declared would prove "ruinous." Members of the U. S. colony at Shanghai transmitted through the local consul a protest and appeal to President Coolidge. Observers thought that the Nanking War Lord, Chiang Kaishek, was suffering reverses in his campaign to take Peking (TIME, March 28, et seq.) and had adopted the desperate expedient of raising all port taxes to increase his failing revenue...
...Labor Party puts forward instead of this ruinous policy of industrial war an inflexible demand for the nationalization of the mines which we shall drive home at the next election...
...When they are successful, minority rule is established, and the result is an extravagance on the part of the Government which is ruinous to the people, and a multiplicity of regulations and restrictions for the conduct of all kinds of necessary business, which becomes little less than oppressive...
...conciliatory policy toward Locarno and the League. Trembling with intensity and striking the desk before him with a frail clenched hand, he demanded the withdrawal of Germany's application for League membership and the abandonment of the Locarno Pacts: "Beware! Oh, beware! The Government's ruinous policy is leading us straight into complete dependence upon France...