Word: whats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Conference was almost disrupted when Dry Governors attempted to overturn its do-nothing tradition and have resolutions adopted calling for more law enforcement, more support of President Hoover. South Carolina's Gov. John Gardiner Richards offered such a resolution. So did Virginia's Governor Byrd and North...
Question: "Is it true . . . that manufacturers care nothing about the rates in the Tariff Bill as long as they can get what they want in the administrative sections?"
What Mr. Edgerton had in mind when he implied that the tariff rates were not so important as their administration was the two conflicting methods of valuing imports for customs purposes. One method, called Foreign, values an article at its fair sale price in the country of production, i.e., the...
Prizefighter Gene Tunney a year ago flew in a Sikorsky Amphibian the 150 miles from Speculator, N. Y., to New York City. To insure his life for $300,000 and the plane for $30,000 during the single, short trip, his insurance company charged a premium of $1,000. Another...
Financier Clement Melville Keys, who controls Curtiss Flying Service, has been trying to buy Sikorsky Aviation Corp. for some time, to merge it with what has become Curtiss-Wright Corp.