Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lumber. House rate: $1.50 per 1,000 ft. Senate rate: free. With pitiful tales of 80,000 lumbermen jobless in the northwest, due to Canadian competition, did Chairman Hawley plead for the House rate. Sensing defeat, he offered to compromise at 75? per 1,000 ft. But the House, in a low-tariff mood, would not compromise, voted (250-to-143) for the Senate's freelisting of lumber...
Shingles. House rate: 25% ad valorem. Senate rate: free. Again Chairman Hawley pleaded for the top rate, again he offered to compromise on 15% ad valorem, again the House swept him aside, put shingles on the free list...
Logs. House rate: $1 per 1,000 ft. Senate rate: free. The House, on second thought, adopted the Senate rate...
Sugar (Cuban). House rate: 2.40? per lb. Senate rate: 2? per Ib. Chairman Hawley begged for a 2.40? per lb. duty: "Sugar is the cheapest food we have. This is an industry that needs protection and the additional cost (60? per family per year) is so small it won't be felt." When defeat loomed again, he again tried to compromise at 2.20? per lb. But the House, now thoroughly insurgent against top-notch rates, turned savagely upon bewildered Chairman Hawley, voted (229-to-160) for the low Senate rate, an increase of 24 100? per lb. over...
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