Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monetary reserve for manipulation in defense of the franc. Premier Poincaré declared roundly before the Senate: "The franc has reached a point where it is much below its real value. The Bank of France bills are guaranteed in such a manner as to render unjustified the absurd present rate of the franc in international exchange...
...maladies peculiar to women, but included those such as common colds, influenza, lung infections. Nervous diseases incapacitated women three times as much as men. But rheumatism and diseases of the joints affected both sexes in almost equal numbers. Against these facts is the strange one that the death rate for London men school teachers is twice as high as for the women. "In some paradoxical way women save themselves from death by becoming ill," Hygienist Fairfield decides. Instead of stubbornly working "until they drop," they get early and efficacious medical attention...
Western railroads wanted a general freight rate increase of 5 percent; the Interstate Commerce Commission investigated for more than a year and last week said, "No." Its report asserted that, "so far as the major portion of the western district is concerned, no financial emergency exists...
...course, the jig seems up, and Mr. Marcus Faithful becomes small Mr. Crump again, dismayed when his hitherto barren wife bears twins as the result of secret correspondence with Mr. Faithful. The rich travesty on modern advertising is rounded off by an amazing rise in the male birth rate and universal posthumous acclaim for Marcus Faithful, whose only private explanation is: "It must have been faith...
...foodstuffs, shortly to be offered them at cost by government canteens established in municipal buildings throughout Italy. Nine such canteens were opened at Rome last week and immediately crowded. To save wheat, from which spaghetti and macaroni are made, the canteens will not offer these comestibles at a reduced rate, will attempt instead to popularize potatoes,- a vegetable thus far unloved by Latins. F. I. A. T. For Italy's biggest industrial plant a $10,000,000 bond issue was sold...