Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Subscriber Roe, congratulations on his luck, and the information that a 10-year subscription to TIME may be had upon payment of $30, a reduction of $20 from the annual rate...
...16th of the dogged strike, New Bedford industry remained at a standstill, rents remained unpaid, stores were without customers, national guardsmen cleaned their rifles. In the greatest labor protest in the history of the textile city, strikers had lost some $9,600,000 in wages, at the staggering rate of $600,000 a week. Mill securities had fallen to purely nominal values, a few dollars a share. Both owners and strikers had rejected arbitration, had agreed without hope to allow the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation to '"investigate." So far as New Bedford could see, the strike might...
...small baldish man named Paul Block announced he had bought the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Standard Union. The price was $1,000,000 or thereabouts. For the Standard Union it was a tidy sum, because for all its 65 years of distinguished history, the paper was losing money at the rate of about $25,000 dollars a month...
Week by week the total of brokers' loans mounted. Federal Reserve banks, led by Chicago, raised the rediscount rate to 5%.* Still the member banks reported that corporations and individuals were withdrawing deposits and putting their funds on the call loan market. Last week, U.S. bankers sat down to a serious campaign to end the wholesale diversion of money for speculative purposes...
...Last week, Lawyer Frank G. Raichle of Buffalo adopted the extraordinary course of filing suit in Federal Court to restrain the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, from raising the rediscount rate. Cried Lawyer Raichle: "Artificial stringency! Propaganda! Money despotism! Paternalism!" Charged Lawyer Raichle: "The Federal Reserve Bank has been illegally engaged in the arbitrary reduction of business through the fixing of high rediscount rates...