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...extra $8815 income obtained by increasing prices of all accommodations $5 each is used to counteract losses in room rentals when, for example, 100 rooms are changed from the $300 to the $260 class. The income drop is $40 per accommodation (the price actually falls from $305 to $265), or $4000 for the block of 100. The additions and subtractions in each case are indicated in the "change" column. Summation of the gains and losses incurred coincident with the change in the number of accommodations at each price, indicates a loss of income of $8800. Hence the increased price level...
...counteract this impression Mr. Teagle published a statement...
...counteract the beginnings of world deflation the Federal Reserve Bank lowered its discount rate which produced stockmarket speculation without having much effect on business...
France signed with the understanding that it may place a 15% surtax on U. S. imports to counteract the fall of the dollar, may raise the surtax still higher if the dollar falls lower. To be excluded from France as an example of dumping is grain for which farmers receive guaranteed prices from a Government marketing agency...
...another of our recent pictures with a fair accuracy of reproduction. Sound apparatus nowadays records just what is spoken in the way it is spoken with a high average of measured accuracy, and individual words are no difficulty. However, often adjustments of various kinds have to be made to counteract individual peculiarities of voice or inflection. On our own lot: George Arliss' sibilants are especially strong. Richard Barthelmess' vowels have a tubby-throaty effect. When Kay Francis says tomowow, wobber, twouble, however, we must record it that way. FREDERIC MACALPIN...