Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Increased costs of pensions, posts, telephone and telegraph increase the ordinary budget about 2,000,000,000 francs ($100,000,000). The deduction of reparations from ordinary receipts, with the above increases of expenses, will require a tax increase of about 3,500,000,000 francs ($175,000,000). This is to be made up: 1) by increasing schedule taxes (roughly equivalent to normal income taxes in the U. S.); 2) by increasing the tax on unproductive capital; 3) by a sliding-scale tax on all revenue from capital (roughly equivalent to surtaxes...
...collectors turned over to the press, books full of names, addresses, amounts, unarranged, unclassified. At each office in New York City, the Times had a battery of stenographers, each group supervised by a reporter. All New York City tax payments of $500 or more were copied. In addition the telegraph wires brought in all tax payments of more than $10,000 from all over the country. The names and amounts were classified, alphabetized and put in type. Next morning the paper published 11,000 names, and on each of the two succeeding days 18,000 names. The whole list...
Western Union Telegraph Co., New York, N. Y. TIME...
...messages appeared, at first glance, to be in code, but a closer scrutiny revealed that they were merely lists of names?Chinese names. Did some sinister purport lodge in these formal messages?a hint of vague hatreds, of malice palely half-smiling from faces as yellow as the telegraph blanks, and as inscrutable? It was hard to be sure. The police, at all events, evinced some interest in the messages; they were also curious to trace certain long distance telephone calls from Boston to obscure places in the Chinese quarters of St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh?calls in which...
...typhoon brought a cloudburst into the thickly populated district around Tokyo with the following results: Twelve lives lost, 20,000 houses flooded (including 1,000 completely submerged), bridges swept away, telegraph wires broken between Tokyo and Osaka, 1,000 acres of rice fields inundated. Damage was estimated...