Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yellow Peril is as senseless as it is unfair. Forced to open itself to the Western world, and then forced to industrialize so that its land and resources have become hopelessly inadequate for supporting its rapidly increasing population, the history of Japan must appear as tragedy on a grand scale. Particularly if one accepts the definition of tragedy as the collision of two goods--or, in this case, of the collision of two inevitable forces...
...four or five hundred per cent. There is some excuse for these extraordinary prices in the case of whiskey where the supply is completely inadequate to meet the demand. With gin which can be manufactured in ten days at the most there is absolutely no justification for the present scale of prices; it represents nothing more nor less than a sincere effort on the part of the distiller to some extent and, on a much larger scale by the retailers, to gouge the public. Moreover, this gin, contrary to the assertions made on the labels, is not distilled...
...Instead of taxing (and allowing tax deductions) of 12½% on gains and losses on capital invested more than two years, a new sliding scale allowing: 100% on capital invested less than one year; 80% less than two years; 60% less than three years; 40% less than five years; 20% over five years. It is hoped thus to stabilize the revenue from this source which under present conditions tends to fluctuate greatly...
...prevent foreign capitalists from playing a dominant role in Mexico and to bring the country's enterprise under Socialistic State control. Dismayed by this evidence of General Calles' fresh intent to press his program strongly, the Bank of Montreal (which once exercised almost a monopoly in large scale Mexican credit and exchange operations) was reported by Mexico City's authoritative El Universal last week about to follow the example of the Anglo South American Bank which recently closed its branches in Mexico...
...Thorne, gentleman farmer, was pleased as Punch. A retired capitalist, a onetime president of Manhattan's Corporation Trust Co., he had been raising cattle since 1918 when he bought a 4,000 acre farm in Dutchess County, N. Y. Eastern dairymen had pooh-poohed the idea of large-scale beef cattle raising in dairy-farming New York State. "This championship proves," said Prizewinner Thorne, "what I have been telling Eastern Farmers all along . . . that they can compete with other regions in beef cattle as well as in dairy herds" (TIME...