Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brisbane did more than grumble. He sneered: "Borrowers should send three large gilt balls to be hung above the Federal Reserve Bank entrance, and similar ornaments to some of the big banks." He threatened: "This is what the law of New York State says, Section 370: 'The legal rate of interest shall not be more than $6 on $100 for one year.' Every bank charging more than 6% interest is violating the law and knows...
...Manhattan's bankers failed to tremble. They answered neither sneers nor threats. Had they wished, however, they might have said: "We charge no more than the legal 6% interest rate. The additional 1% is a carrying fee, to compensate us for our trouble in carrying the account." This was, of course, one of many current evasions of the law's letter...
...Because five hundred million dollars of gold had been shipped away from the U. S. this year, the shipment of $2,500,000 from England to the U. S. last week, was memorable. It was the first time in more than a year that such movement had happened. Interest rate on loans is the cause. Money in New York cost 7% to 8%, in London 4½%; and money goes where it earns most...
...American Weekly is the Sunday supplement of the 28 Hearst newspapers. Advertisers are invited to regard it as a sort of magazine. It has a circulation of 25,000,000 (Saturday Evening Post has less than 3,000,000). Its advertising rate is $16,000 per page. Its contents are entirely lurid: huge pictures and meaningless text about the scandals of Europe's lesser nobility, dinosaurs, spooks, freaks of science, etc. Eleven years ago, Publisher Hearst, despairing of selling advertising in such a thing, offered to give one Albert J. Kobler a big commission for every advertisement sold. From...
...Also called breakbone, dandy, stiffnecked and knockel-koorts. It is an acute, communicable disease of short duration, characterized by a sudden onset; usually with severe pains in the head, muscles, bones and joints; fever; a bounding pulse increased in rate; and an irregular eruption. The disease always terminates in recovery if no complications are present...