Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge was a countrified freshman at Amherst, a train of cars creaked down from the Mesaba Range, where Hibbing was to be built, bearing the first shipment of blood-colored rocks and dust.* Today the Mesaba district produces 63 million tons of iron ore per annum, four-fifths the total consumption of the U. S. In 1892, the iron ranges of Wisconsin and the Michigan peninsula-Gogebic, Florence, Menominee-had been developed for over a decade. They were the first answer to Railroader James J. Hill's gloomy prediction that the world's supply of iron was approaching...
Back of the strikers are a united press and a supporting clergy. Landlords accept the total loss of rents without grumbling. In spite of hard times, merchants keep on extending credit, postponing payments on instalments. Riots and unemployment are the bugaboos of most fire and police departments, but New Bedford firemen and policemen contribute to the strikers' funds from their own pockets...
...courts, whither the battle has been at least temporarily removed, strikers planned appeals to vindicate the right of mass picketing. Five radicals, charged with assaulting policemen, were sentenced to seven months in the House of Correction. Radical leaders have piled sentence on sentence until some are faced with total terms of over two years...
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...money out on call, at interest rates ranging from 5 to 10%. As the bank asks only a small commission for this service and generally assumes all the risk, the conversion of surpluses into call loans has become a popular feature of corporation financing. In the last year, the total of such loans has risen from $906,144,000 to $1,808,645,000. To the corporations, this practice seems both obvious and admirable. But to the paternal superbankers, guarding the money market, it appears highly hazardous, deeply disturbing. Last week, the issue became acute, the crucial phase...