Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Reserve Bank and Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Finally Mr. Mellon dropped in at the U. S. Embassy and was reminded of a duty by able Chargé d'Affaires Sheldon Whitehouse. Mr. Whitehouse informed Mr. Mellon that in deference to custom he must call on the Premier of France, M. Poincaré. Moreover, added Mr. Whitehouse, Foreign Minister Briand had already put off his departure for the League session at Geneva for a day in expectation of a call from Mr. Mellon...
There was but one way in which the Secretary of the U. S. Treasury could blast rumors that he had come to Paris to talk debts with MM. Briand and Poincaré last week-he could call on them for so short a time that no discussion of anything would be possible. He did. With Premier Poincaré he chatted affably lor 16 minutes. Nine minutes sufficed for his call on Foreign Minister Briand. Parisian editors were vexed...
...know that such a call was tallied against their monthly allowance by the telephone company, a charge of practically five cents...
This control became important during the War. But, even so, German industrialists could call their plants their own until 1923, when they were forced to pay 18% for their borrowed money. The banks profited well because they could borrow from their British and U. S. connections† at barely more than 5%. In many cases, concerns could not repay loans, whose interest in less than six years equalled the entire principal. They capitulated to the banks, which became sole owners or at the least, important partners...
Everyone knows that, if he remains awake until midnight, he may make a long distance call at one-fourth the price of the daytime charge. If he calls between 8:30 p. m. and midnight, the fee is one-half the day rate. That is, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (the Bell System) considers daytime to range from 4:30 a. m. to 8:30 p. m., evenings from 8:30 p. m. to midnight, and night from midnight to 4:30 a. m. Thus charge for certain calls from Manhattan...