Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Attitude. There was high hope in the French Mission as it came to negotiate for settlement of the French War Debt to the U. S.?high hope of a low settlement. The Mission of course said little except "Hope." But it was accompanied by two journalists ? Stephane Lauzanne, Editor of Le Matin, and Pertinax, Foreign Editor of L'Echo de Paris... Those two gentlemen were voluble in their protestations. They exhibited an entire unwillingness to believe that the U. S. demand for payment in full on something like the terms to Great Britain was serious. Mr. Lauzanne...
...reached the United States, several members of the American War Debt Commission had figured out that it would be very hard to obtain from Great Britain, for the funding of her debt, an interest superior to 2%. They had in a sense resigned themselves to such a low interest. To their great astonishment, they heard Mr. Baldwin propose himself an interest...
...Boston. On a fine clear night last week she steamed out of Long Island Sound into the ocean on the last leg of her northward voyage. Only a few miles beyond Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast she sighted a light off her starboard bow. The light was low on the water and for a time was taken as the light of a rum runner, then suddenly it became apparent that the boat carrying the light was about to cross the steamer's bow. The Captain of the City of Rome set up a warning shriek...
...reserve fund; 20% to the capital fund. Workers get a bonus for more than normal production. The salaries of executives are "according to ability" and are fixed. A house, carriage, automobile and what not are often thrown in to invisibly raise a salary that "looks better" in low figures...
...Daily News outlined what has been called the Mercantile Theory of Art: "In any intelligent scale of values, riches rank very low. Athens ... a greater figure in the history of mankind than Chicago or Manhattan . . . little Bethlehem, with no wealth at all, worth more than London...