Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Giving him a hypodermic of strychnine at best was a useless procedure. It may have done him harm. All the man needed was air. Had it been at hand, inhalation of a mixture of oxygen and carbonic acid might have been called for. At any rate, that is what should be found on ambulances today. In all probability this fireman did not need even that, since he does not seem to have been much knocked out. The use of ammonia might have been justified, particularly after the man was moved well away from the smoke, but even it is doubtful...
...conference took place, the Chief Executive was able to loll in the Gloucester hammock, shielded by the sheets from the curious and the sun. Before Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot quitted their sturdy porch chairs the irreducible terms to be granted Belgium had been fixed, the all-important interest rate of the Belgian moratorium was settled...
...Belgian Debt. During the War Belgium borrowed $171,780,000 from the United States. After the armistice she borrowed $246,000,000 more for reconstruction purposes. The interest rate...
Foresters and the press began to denounce U. S. woodcutters, asserting that Americans have bought many French forests and are cutting them down. The U. S. lumberman is so described: "With an ear-to-ear grin on his face and his hands overflowing with dollars milked from the rate of exchange, he scours the forest of Creuse and Correze, demolishing the beautiful chestnut trees. The forests of several French provinces are soon to fall under...
...publishing a weekly magazine of newsclippings and advertisement. It is purely a mechanical operation requiring no literary ability. In my opinion such a magazine will not be in demand by the public at a higher subscription rate than two dollars per annum and five cents per number. At such figure a large circulation might be worked up so as to justify good advertising rates and make TIME profitable to the publisher...