Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frenchman, suave Charles Rist. Last week M. Rist resigned as a Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, hopped a train for Bucharest. There he will assist the new Peasant Government of Rumania (TIME, Nov. 19) to place the leu on an absolute gold basis at its present rate of exchange, 167.18 lei to the dollar...
...used in "making or maintaining speculative loans." Further, the board threatened to "restrain the use of Federal Reserve credit facilities in aid of the growth of speculative credit." Taken at face value, this statement would mean refusal of loans for speculative purposes, plus a rise in the rediscount rate, which in turn would mean a stockmarket afflicted with scarce money and falling prices...
...Stillings talked volubly to the press. He said he had invented the business, "lapsation" and all. Asked how he could pay a usurer's interest rate, he said: "If I told you. you would start in the business for yourself...
...athletes and non-athletes, made by having them alternately run on a treadmill and lic still on a couch, show that the athlete's blood changes less than that of the ordinary man in motion. The acidosis of De Mar's blood remained static while running at an average rate of 5.8 miles per hour, when he consumed 3.5 liters of oxygen per minute and kept a pulse rate of 101. For comparison a non-athlete in the same test consumed 1.5 liters of oxygen a minute, keeping a pulse rate of 192, and lowering by half the acidosis...
...plan for the erection of a new structure has been proved practicable by the number of ticket applications received each fall at the Athletic Association. It is to be regretted that the present opportunity for carrying out this scheme has been allowed to slip; for at the present rate of deterioration little more than a decade will pass before the concrete Stadium itself will be unfit for service...