Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this case, where there is water competition, that the railroads cannot secure long haul freight on rates fixed uniformly. Accordingly, it pays them to secure freight at any rate greater than the actual cost of moving the freight, even if the rate does not pay a pro-rated share of the fixed charge. By such a procedure the railways are able to increase their net revenue. That is what the railroads now do in many cases. The railways have applied for a further reduction, so as to compete with the seaborne trade through the Panama Canal. But there are objectors...
...every eight persons gainfully occupied is producing nothing in return for his share of the [world] payroll. Of the 87½% engaged in productive labor we see that 50% of their labor is lost through lack of coordination. That leaves them 43¾% productive. We see, again, that at least one quarter of this is lost through expenditure for war, preparation for war and the economic paralysis following war. . . . That leaves our factory 34% productive. . . . We cannot measure the loss through the idleness of the income-drawing class, nor the loss through the production of luxuries which benefit only...
Home: The "coming Premier" said he would favor amnesty for political prisoners, put the finances of the country on a sound basis, not by increasing taxes but by forcing payment by those people who have managed to evade paying their full share...
...stock ticker is proverbial for its accuracy, yet it is by no means immune from careless clerks and incompetent stenographers. Last week the ticker reported that a dividend of 75? a share had been declared upon Mother Lode Coalition Mines. Immediately the gentry who make a living for a while by trading on the tape hurled orders t into the market to buy "Mother Lode," whose price soon shot up from...
...where we do not feel that mystery should exist. Each detall, each motion of the characters, has been carefully planned and visualized, but these details and motions are thrown into the realm of crude sensation or ill-defined symbol for the sake of intensity. The reader, who cannot fully share the intensity either of authors or characters, is occasionally mystified as a result. A more external treatment for the bulk of the story should make the incidents more real. But the effect as the story stands is considerable, and the vigor of style deserves to be rewarded...