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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine ounce,* the highest price since British currency went back onto a gold basis in 1925. In Paris the gold reserve of the Bank of France swelled to the largest total in history, and circulation of French banknotes backed by this gold also enlarged to the maximum volume for all time: 75,950,000,000 francs. With France and the U. S. continuing their joint dominance of three-fifths of the world's monetary gold, attention riveted upon the strange aquatic behavior of Governor Montagu Collett Norman of the Bank of England. Mr. Norman (with his valet...
...student members of the House will be charged a minimum rate of $7.50 a week for meals. This will entitle them to any ten meals they choose. For the student who takes fourteen meals in the House the charge will be $8.50 a week. The maximum charge for board will be $10.50 a week, which entitles a student to the full number of twenty-one meals. Individual meals are at the rate of forty cents for breakfast, sixty cents for lunch, and eighty cents for dinner. Arrangements will be made for a la carte service in addition, if there appears...
...wages. They point out that after the War the Government adjusted its contracts with the railroads and the War contractors, paying them $1,600,000,000 and $2,000,000,000 more, respectively, in cash. The Certificates were given the form of 20-year paid-up endowment policies. Values (maximum averages $1,500) were computed by the following equation...
...service completes another through passageway for transcontinental passengers. The California-bound traveler reaches Chicago by early evening in ample time to board Boeing's night mail plane to the coast-total flying schedule 28½ hr. But unless the mail load is light, in which case a maximum of four passengers might be taken, the passenger must wait overnight in Chicago for the morning transport, arriving in San Francisco the morning after that. When enough travelers appear to demand it, large passenger planes may be flown regularly on the night schedule. At Salt Lake City the passenger may transfer...
...state that a bibliography listing all material used must accompany each thesis and the lists of League of Nation documents, pamphlets and selected books will be sent on receipt of the registration blank. As for length, 3,000 words are suggested as a minimum and 5,000 as a maximum, but these limits are not arbitrary. Other conditions will be included with the registration blank...