Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sphinxlike ballot box. There is a public buildings bill, a bill for increasing the pay of Federal judges, a bill for disposing of Muscle Shoals, bills for future handling of railroad and coal strikes, the French debt settlement, and above all farm relief?all clamoring for consideration. A first-rate legislative jam seems in the making, with the probability that many of these measures will not pass. And although Congressmen are eager to go home, they do not want to return to dissatisfied electorates. Their personal interests are beginning to shriek in their ears. Who knows what they...
...follow immediately on any disregard of a warning given, and it should be sufficiently drastic to strike the imagination of even the dullwitted. If it became known that all this would be the inevitable result of parenthood under these conditions, a fall would take place in the birth rate of all this section of the less fit, with great beneficial results, both immediate and racial...
...most noteworthy feature of the week was the New York Federal Reserve Bank's lowering of its rediscount rate from 4% to 3½%. Call money dropped to 3% (the lowest since March 20, 1925) on the Stock Exchange and to 2½% outside. Such easy money was one cause for the rise of stock prices. Another cause must have been the plentiful money available from the conservatism so noticeable in industrial enterprises. Bond prices have been mounting gradually since the recent stock break. One day last week $20,826,000 in domestic bonds were sold, a record, the previous being...
Talking Machines. When the cinema, café dancings, low-rate orchestra entertainments and radio decoyed people from the musical whirrings of their household phonographs, the Vector Talking Machine officials developed a new machine, the orthophonic; advertised so well that within two weeks of first announcement orders of $20,000,000 came in. People liked the machine, liked the prices. So the stockholders in meeting last week learned that their factory production-schedule the first quarter of this year was the highest in history, that their biggest business year lies before them...
...Freshman eight, which averages 183 pounds to the man, was in its initial race of the season, and did even better than expected. Coach Haines's crew rowed an average stroke of 30 yesterday and were able to keep ahead of the University boat, which was rowing at a rate of from 32 to 34 strokes to the minute...