Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much good to listen as it has me to deliver this, you're all feeling elegant right now." He was full of vim, having just returned from a Packard motor trip through Florida with golf at the stops. He was bustling about Massachusetts at a great rate, telling how the colleges should be run† getting after his Attorney-General for what looked like scalawaggery,** and booming other men so generously that in a speech to a large bevy of clubwomen he slipped into an absurdity. "I would like," he said, "to place before you for consideration the ticket...
...proposed rate-cut conferred upon coal a special benefit out of scale with the rates given other commodities, notably agricultural. 2) It would tend to precipitate rate-cutting by railroads (Baltimore & Ohio, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Wheeling & Lake Erie) which carry coal to the same market from competing mines in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Rate wars are against the public interest, especially Labor's, and are one of the evils the I. C. C. was founded to suppress...
...make it a "Queen City" once more. The two provocative phrases were a) that Cincinnati "has drooped, malnourished industrially:" b) that it "has become bedraggled and dirty." Both sentences were meant in a comparative sense. Comparatively, Cincinnati has drooped, many another midland city having shown a far greater rate of industrial growth in the last 50 years. As to dirt, last fortnight the American Society of Heat and Ventilating Engineers ranked Cincinnati as second-sootiest of 24 large U. S. cities−sootier than Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland...
...Passed, 68 to 1, a resolution requiring the Interstate Commerce Commission to report fully to Congress in April on all its rate decisions of the past five years, including the authority cited for each decision; sent it to the House for concurrence...
...Brown Brothers & Co., Halsey, Stuart & Co., Hemphill, Noyes & Co. and Wood, Gundy & Co. Few financial theorists in the U. S. reflected sentimentally that this was the railroad that carried U. S. soldiers from Bordeaux or Brest to battle. But all financial theorists did reflect deeply upon that interest rate...