Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...space given to the "first class" passengers were reorganized on humbler lines, the ship could carry a total of 1,000 passengers. If it should then reduce its rate to $125 for round trip, its revenues would...
...therefore argued that gas is a more humane weapon than explosives (also strictly chemical weapons) which had a death rate of 1 in 3. There the matter might rest a triumph for the scientists; for most men with active experience of the War believe that they are right. But there is the future to be considered...
...greatest number of cradles per family was set rocking in the rural districts of North Carolina-31.9 babies per 1,000. Rural Montana had the fewest-only 14.9 per 1,000 but there the death rate was very low, only...
Although the growth of the Bell System during the last few years has been unprecedented, all indications point to the continuance of that growth and an increasing, rather than abating, demand for telephone service. Such a rate of growth, together with increasing complexity of the telephone art, calls for a new potential leadership in the technical, administrative, and commercial fields of the system...
...trying to keep Orville Wright from giving his first airplane to an English museum should let him do it. For the last twenty years England has been watching wealthy Americans carry off pictures, priceless manuscripts, even entire houses, because the British could not compete with the American rate of bidding. The Wright plane may form the nucleus of a collection of commercial masterpieces, and if the National Museum of Engineering, through its secretary, urges that it is distinctively American, and hence should remain here, the English can reply that then the products of Reynolds and Gainsborough do not belong...