Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wheat market, to the Farm Board's large concern, has been on the down grade of late. In the Chicago pit last week prices for December delivery slid from $1.25 per bu. to $1.13, recovered somewhat, closed at $1.23 per bu. Last July the same wheat stood...
Enigmatic Pincus Rutenberg is an ex-Russian, an ex-soldier of the late Tsar Nicholas II, and the ex-Chief of Police of the Kerensky ex-Government of Russia. When he sought refuge in London, such statesmen as the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill praised him for having done his policeful best in Moscow to catch and hang Lenin and Trotsky. Soon a syndicate of British and Zionist capitalists sent him out to found the Palestine Electric Corp. (TIME, March 4). Today he is the Samuel Insull (see p. 52) of the Near East. Last week he dramatically intervened...
...Hamblin, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, and discharged Director of the Botanic Garden said yesterday that he had been assured that some such requests will be made, and the president of one of Boston's Garden Clubs, when reached by telephone late yesterday, said that such action was being seriously considered by her group, but that as yet no definite steps had been taken...
...until the end of the war the school of English at Oxford was comparatively small, but today it numbers about 300 men who are reading in English literature at the University. As it exists today it is largely the creation of the late Sir Walter Raleigh, who was a professor at Oxford from 1904 to 1919. When the school was started people feared that it would become a school of 'literary lounging', therefore there has been a good deal of the stiffening of the scholarship of English literature of late...
...weight to the theory that the discount rate of the central bank of a country is not the ultimate determinant in a country's credit position, particularly when public opinion refuses to take cognizance of the message of the rate, and when--as has been the case in the late years in the United States--the credit policy is controlled by other factors than the gold reserve. In view of these facts it does not seem too much to say that stereotyped financial theory and business practice are rapidly being put through a laboratory experiment in this country in which...