Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the year, $2,307,041,400 of U. S. bonds, notes and Treasury certificates fell due. Because of debt retirements, only $1,882,167,000 had to be sold to pay off those falling due; and, in issuing the new securities, the Government lowered the average rate of interest from 4.446% to 3.557%-which of itself will produce an annual saving of nearly...
...conference of Governors before. This one he attended only perfunctorily-just long enough to make a speech and little more. Just long enough to make an utterance which many believed was the opening of a campaign to be elected Senator next year and President two years later. At any rate what he set about to do was to attack the attitude of the speaker who preceded...
...greater amounts of freight. Profits were garnered and plowed into better equipment and right of way, with the result that operating costs fell rapidly. Presently, earnings on the common became noticeably great, and dividends were suddenly declared on the 5% non-cumulative preferred, and then, at the same rate, on the common. The rise in the latter stock has proved one of the sensations of the 1924-25 stockmarket...
...interest that the U. S. would pay during the moratorium would amount to more than $800,000,000 (not compounded) and the loss by accepting a present payment of 75c on the dollar would be only a little more than $500,000,000. Similarly if Italy pays a rate of interest lower than that which the U. S. pays on its own indebtedness, the difference is a loss, which in effect is subtracted from the amount of the principal paid. But the ways of finance are not the ways of politics. If part of the Italian debt must be canceled...
...Authority to issue new bonds, limited for subscription to present bond holders, with a decreased rate of interest to be fixed by decree, and carrying, as an inducement, a guarantee of redemption in gold...