Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well to take the opening pronouncement of Secretary of Commerce Hoover's annual report issued last week: "The fiscal year 1925-26 has been one never surpassed in our history in the volume of production and consumption, in the physical quantity of exports and imports, and in the rate of wages...
...Harlow for second and third prizes the Committee felt that these two plans contained most pertinent suggestions although neither in the opinion of the Committee offered an immediate solution. The suggestions in Mr. Harlow's essay and in that of Mr. Weissberger, regarding the self service at a flat rate and a separate grill with more leeway as to hours of service the judges felt might be incorporated in the plan presented by Mr. Keyes. The Committee, while disagreeing with the solution offered by Mr. Wyzanski of supervised private boarding houses, considered his essay as possibly the most carefully worked...
...recent statement made by Dr. M. P. Revenal of the University of Missouri revealed the new statistics prepared by life insurance companies and public health organizations on the birth rate among American college graduates. His figures amazed a meeting of state educators...
...Joslyn, Instructor in the Division of Economics, stated yesterday in regard to the constant decrease in the birth-rate of college graduates. "There are several immediate causes responsible for the decline in the number of offspring among the educated class of American people. Primarily, of course, the postponement of marriage necessitated by a college education reduces the size of families. Secondly, fewer marriages and higher standards of living affect the increase of American racial stock. However, the decrease is more a social than a racial phenomenon. With the increase of Intellectual development, higher standards of selection and frequently the desire...
...faster than the government can examine them. Secretary Hoover comes forth with the blithe statement that the fiscal year 1925-1926 has been the most successful in the history of the United States; successful economically, in volume of production and consumption, in quality of imports and exports, and in rate of wages. The nation, according to this report, is in excellent condition. More to the point, Mr. Hoover backs his diagnosis by figures which, though one wonders where he got them, show ebullient prosperity...