Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rentals should remain the same. In spite of the reduction of the rents which was put into effect last year, however, it is by no means certain that another decrease is not advisable. The rise in prices generally has done something to place the present charges at a fitting level, or at the least on a level more nearly comparable with the sums charged by other landlords. The privileges of House membership, too, justify a certain margin of increase over the rent of an ordinary boarding house room. But the price of rooms is unquestionably a weight on many...
...Here the committee reasserts its contention that these differences can be ironed out, due to the near uniformity of room advantages. Difficulties will of course arise in rooms of sunless character, and in multiple suites. Where a House has a certain proportion of its rooms priced at the lowest level the sunless room could be rented at that figure. Multiple suites could be rented to the many groups of men who seek entrance into a House in a body. After pricing at low figures these less desirable rooms, the bulk of the rooms in the House would remain available...
Dollars sank last week to the lowest level since the U. S. quit the gold standard -65?. Because President Roosevelt had not yet seen fit to devalue the dollar, the price is determined by supply & demand in international exchange. And because the U. S. has a 'favorable trade balance, demand is normally greater than supply. Whence the dollar flood that has eaten away 35? of every 100? in each U. S. dollar since last April? Continental money-changers, canniest of whom are reputed to be "the Greeks," delight in selling dollars short, but bankers know that that accounted...
...lots of less than 100 shares for small purchasers, do roughly one-third of the business transacted on the Exchange. Wire houses and oddlot brokers are able to turn far less than 15% of their gross into net profit. If stock-trading were to reach and stay at a level of 6,000,000 shares a day the brokers could bear the tax, but in slack periods like the present a 5% tax on gross income might completely erase the profits of many...
...Simmonds the two worst features of U. S. air transport are noise and "rumbling." The noise evil has been effectively attacked since his visit; the Curtiss "silent" Condor and the new Douglas Airliner have reduced cabin decibels to approximately the same level as a Pullman...