Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff so farmers can buy manufactures in a competitive market, 3) readjustment and lowering of transportation rates, 4) completion of internal waterway systems for cheaper transportation and development of water-powers for cheaper fertilizer, 5) stimulation of cooperative marketing, establishing of a Government export agency to prevent the export surplus from undermining home prices, 6) suitable credits, 7) reduction of the margin between the prices at which the farmer buys and at which he sells...
With the approach of the end of the fiscal year, the Treasury, on its New Year's Eve, had cause for rejoicing. It was apparent that the final casting up of accounts would show a surplus of about $400,000,000 or perhaps something better. The 25% reduction in income taxes, which is divided 50-50 between the collections of the last half of the fiscal year of 1923-4 and the collections of the first half of the fiscal year 1924-5, had reduced income tax receipts only about $100, 000,000, which was more than made...
...result of the surplus during the year, besides the reserve for debt retirement, the public debt will be reduced over $1,000,000,000. This reduction will save the Government more than $40,000,000 annually in interest charges alone...
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...fundamentals are concerned. To his mind, the curtailment of acreage now being accomplished by wheat-growers, whose output had been artificially stimulated during the War period, is symbolic of what industrial concerns must do. Nor, under present wage scales, does he think new outlets for surplus American products can readily be found...