Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fingers and postponed the effective date to Jan. 1, 1932. Domestic value is "the price at which imported merchandise is freely offered for sale in the principal markets of the U. S. in wholesale quantities." The committee's purpose was to change the system of valuation without changing the scale of protection. The Tariff Commission was ordered to calculate the conversion and submit to Congress the new ad valorem rates (percentages) necessary to maintain the tariff level established by this bill. Then Congress would have to vote again to put them into effect...
...must pay be immediately ratified because: 1) It was approved by all; 2) The date on which the Young Plan was designed to supersede the old Dawes Plan was Sept. 1; 3) All German budgetary arrangements had been made in good faith to pay Reparations on the Young Plan scale which is $132,000,000 less per average year than the Dawes Plan scale; 4) The expert drafters of the Young Plan declared that it represents the utmost practical capacity of Germany to pay; 5) Therefore to expect Germany to go on paying under the Dawes Plan "more than...
Sugar last week became food for Republican thought as the Senate Finance Committee returned to this bitter-sweet subject of tariff-writing. Full committee hearings were held on a plan for a sliding scale of sugar duties proposed by Chairman Reed Smoot as a substitute for the flat rate in the House tariff bill. Senator Smoot spent the weekend with President Hoover at the latter's Shenandoah National Park camp site, returned convinced that the President will approve the bill if his sliding scale is inserted, pondered sugar solemnly with the President...
...Smoot Plan. The present duty on world sugar is $2.20 per 100 lb., on Cuban sugar $1.76. Loud have been the protests against this increase, ominous the warnings to consumers. To quiet this clamor, Senator Smoot proposed a scale of sugar duties that would vary inversely to the wholesale New York price of sugar. His purpose was to stabilize that price at $6 per 100 lb. Insistent was he that it would produce sugar rates lower than those in the House bill. The top rate in the Smoot scale would be $3 per 100 lb., the bottom $1. Cuban imports...
...measure small electric currents; to estimate accurately the fractional divisions on a scale; to record rapidly varying electric current; to make copies of drawings, usually on a larger or smaller scale; to measure small dimensions accurately; to measure high temperatures...