Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Farm Board, composed of the Secretary of Agriculture and a member from each of the twelve U. S. Land Bank districts, appointed by the President. This Board was to administer the loan fund and help co-operative marketing associations to cope with surplus crops...
...Surveys would be made by the Board and its advisors to determine if and when a surplus of any commodity is on hand...
Even pinch-dollar voyagers who count the cost of a first class passage must admit that last week the S. S. Majestic gave surplus value for her $265 minimum first class fare. The bonus was in the form of a spry though greying couple who appeared on the passenger list as "Mr. and Mrs, John Robinson." On the third night out John Robinson mounted the Majesties concert platform and cried genially: "Look here, you people, I am Henry Ford and I will show you how to amuse yourselves in the proper way. What about old-fashioned dances...
...reader that there is not a word of truth in his whole novel. Not that the reader would for very long be kept in doubt because whatever merits this detective tale night possess plausibility is not one of them. Still it compensates for its lack of realism by a surplus of mystery and melodrama. A scarecrow plays a major part in the plot. Every elue in the murder led to a blank wall until Detective Faucet spied the blood on the living room carpet and all that sort of thing...
From the estimated $252,000,000 surplus Secretary Mellon last autumn subtracted a $25,000,000 reserve fund, and told Congress that a $225,000,000 tax cut would be safe if Congress would keep closely to the Treasury's budget figures. Up to last week Congress had already gone $25,000,000 beyond the budget figures, and still had to make a flood-control outlay of perhaps $40,000,000. From these facts Treasury experts predicted that a tax cut surely no greater than $225,000,000, perhaps of only $220,000,000, perhaps of no more than...