Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of "adjustment." They paid $3 per $500 coverage for an expected building period of 21 months. In London -world centre of maritime insurance- the disaster was declared "absolutely without precedent," since no such mighty leviathan has ever burned in course of construction. Result: the prevailing London rate of 8% for a "constructive total loss" was jumped to 15%. Most of the Europa insurance was placed in Hamburg, thus adding more murk to the city's gloom. Unofficially it was said that the N. G. L. had expected an increase in revenue of 20% when the Bremen, Europa...
...into the call money market. Inasmuch as call money had reached 20% during the famed 8,000,000 share turnover market-break (TIME, April i), the assurance of available funds had a tremendous moral effect. For traders were not so much worried about a 20% rate as about the fact that even at 20% money was not available. Thus the Mitchell announcement stabilized the market, much to the disgust of the Federal Reserve Board, which had been rubbing its hands over the money scarcity that its influence had helped produce. That was why Senator Glass made his "face slapping" remark...
...digress no longer, "The Silver Swan" is first-rate musical entertainment. It is the only commendable "operetta" we have seen in several moons. It has much better than average singing, catching tunes, and a pleasant eyeful of costumes and sets. The humor is well carried off by Florenz Ames, assisted from time to time by the above-mentioned Mr. Woods. As the leading lady Myrtle Clark is all that could be desired...
...come. Call money was renewed at 9%. The rush of selling began. The bears pressed hot on the heels of their enemy; amateur speculators took flight and fled. Pool and investment houses which had been boosting favorites acknowledged the stampede, stepped aside to let it pass. The money rate went to 14%, the highest in nine years. At the close, many industrial stocks were down nine points or more...
...earning of $10.19 per share. At 105,000 soda fountains U.S. citizens were saying "Give me a Coca-Cola." At 600,000 retail outlets the corrugated little Coca-Cola bottle was being dispensed. Thirsty wayfarers in the U. S. and in 75 foreign countries consumed Coca-Cola at the rate of more than two million gallons a year. Every day eight and a half million glasses of Coca-Cola are drained to their sugary dregs. Operating 13 syrup factories, the company is one of the largest single consumers of sugar in the world. Many a railroad, many a steel company...