Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steel. Many are certain that Judge Gary will resign and permit a stock dividend (TIME, July 5). Many think a 40% stock dividend will be declared. Others premise that the $100 par common stock will be doubled and put on a 4% or 5% dividend basis (the present rate is 7%). Still others suppose that the directors will issue a special cash dividend of $5 a share this very month. Meanwhile the real business of the U. S. Steel Corp. continues at a rate unusually high for July - around 80% of capacity. The whole steel industry produced more than...
...authorities to the effect that the most probable cause of cancer is canned and denatured foods. And Sir Arbuthnot Lane, England's best surgeon, says in substance that Mr. Barker knows the cause of cancer and the remedy. Perhaps these are Macfadden's authorities. At any rate, while the doctors are disagreeing, he certainly has a right to his opinion...
...several cases the legal relation of corporations, especially public utilities, to the Government was enlarged upon. The Illinois Bell Telephone Co., for example, was granted relief from low rates, after its application for increased rates had not been acted upon by a state board two years after it was made. Again the Court refused several similar actions where the public utility company had not made formal application for higher rates to state authorities. In another case the Court allowed the New York Telephone Co. to include as part of its property entitled to a reasonable return a reserve fund built...
This strong statement brought put strong reactions. The monarchists were elated and the socialists talked of the President's resigning if expropriation was voted. At any rate the General's statement is expected to aid the monarchist cause...
...rate the gracious advice of the Prince to his former countrymen ought not to be lost upon the world. If royalty have been degraded to figureheads, they may yet serve as spectacular and useful ornaments. If he continues to pay the melting pot the compliment of understanding, the Prince will likely capture a public usually crudely sportive where crowned heads are concerned...