Word: 3â
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...3?? Hours. The expectantly awaited informal miner-owner conference (TIME, June 14) assembled in London last week. In 3?? hours it reached a state of complete deadlock on all points, adjourned amid recriminations...
...reparations payments), such as was demanded by Caillaux, was mentioned. The total payments in 62 years are to amount to $6,847,000,000 in principal and interest. The interest is calculated as none for five years, 1% for the next ten years and so on up to 3??% for the last 22 years?which signifies nothing, since this is a mere juggling of fictitious terms. Calculating interest at 4¼%, the present value of the proposed payments is just about 50% of the debt as it stands, or about 15% more than Caillaux's best offer...
...debt commission pursued its course. The day after Senator Reed's exclamations it made public a settlement which it had just made of the Jugoslavian debt of $62,850,000. Interest is suspended in the early years, beginning with ? of 1% at the 13th year and advancing to 3??% in the last 27 years of the 62 year period. In all $95,177,635 will be paid in principal and interest, but the proposed payments amount in value to only about 32% of the present face value of the debt...
...most noteworthy feature of the week was the New York Federal Reserve Bank's lowering of its rediscount rate from 4% to 3??%. Call money dropped to 3% (the lowest since March 20, 1925) on the Stock Exchange and to 2½% outside. Such easy money was one cause for the rise of stock prices. Another cause must have been the plentiful money available from the conservatism so noticeable in industrial enterprises. Bond prices have been mounting gradually since the recent stock break. One day last week $20,826,000 in domestic bonds were sold, a record, the previous being...
Admiral Fiske experimented with Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, a work of 93,000 words. He had it printed to be read in his reading machine. In its reduced shape, it was a 13-page pamphlet, 3?? inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement...