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...values of each of the U. S. railroads according to some fair formula and to use such valuations as the basis upon which to figure transportation rates. The Act also provided that after a railroad earned 6% profits as calculated upon the I. C. C. valuation, it must split its extra profits half and half with the U. S. Government. That is, if a railroad worth $100,000 earned $7,000 (7%) in a year, it could keep $6,000 (6%) as its Esch-Cummins profits, but must divide the extra $1,000 with the Federal Treasury...
Paramount was the revelation that the Nationalists - hitherto united-are dangerously if not disastrously split. Victorious Chiang Kai-shek was reported in one despatch to have publicly renounced the Bolshevism professed by the Committee; and to be on the point of constituting himself civil as well as military dictator of the Nationalist movement...
...scooped up the prettiest little split infinitives, the cutest conceits, the most just positively gorgeous non sequiturs and took them all to John Harvard's statue to make him green with envy...
Bitter, humorless, antagonizing more than he converted, Charles Ruthenberg split the Socialist party in 1919, became leader of the small Communist wing, while the late Eugene Victor Debs remained leader of the Socialists. Comrade Ruthenberg's ultimate purpose was "revolution without violence"; he advocated strikes "because they are a dress rehearsal for the revolution" which he hoped would free the workers from capitalism...
Huddled in gray annihilation, split...