Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 1887, the emphasis of I. C. C. actions, and of laws to back up the actions, has extended from the first-named function (rate-making) to the third-named (scrutiny of financial structures). In 1906, for example, the so-called Hepburn Bill finally gave the I. C. C. power to fix rates. Whereas in 1920, the Esch-Cummins Act, which returned the railroads to private control after the War, invaded whatever "private rights" a "public utility" may have, by requiring the railroads to pay the Interstate Commerce Commission one-half their profits above 6%. This so-called "recapture" clause...
...state of preservation that sand could be found in the lungs of petrified Indians. Lung disease was disclosed similar to that disease so common among the inhabitants of dusty cities. Tuberculosis germs were furthermore detected and it is supposed that the Basket Maker tribe fought against a high death rate...
...owed less than at any time since 1919?$18,036,352,451.81. This reduction of eight and one-half billions may be credited about proportionately to Secretary Andrew Mellon and his immediate predecessors, Carter Glass and David F. Houston. Each in his time brought the burden down at the rate of a billion per year...
...Alderman of Michigan Agrucltural College. Several of the other men who have beaten 49 seconds for the 440 yard distance, he pointed out, are Barbuti of Syracuse, Swope of Darmouth, and Paulson and Ross of Yale. Borah of Southern California, better known as a furlong runner, would rate close to Alderman if he changed to the longer distance, Coach Farrell believes...
...Goodwin of the New York Athletic Club can do 4.20 regularly. Enck, the I. C. A. A. A. A. champion in the mile who will run here in the Knights of Columbus and Boston Athletic Association metts, and Conger and Sivack of the Illinois Athletic Club, should rate up well on the American team...