Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Power Trust. (Power companies supply electricity to manufacture calcium in plants widely scattered over the U. S.) Thirteen Democrats with power or carbide plants in their States broke ranks in the face of the enemy, refused to charge. The assault to halve the ifz'-per-lb. rate was repulsed by the regular Republicans...
Coalition ranks reformed, pressed on to Casein Creek. (Casein is a skimmed milk by-product of large industrial value.) Battle lines crumbled weakly as the attackers swept through to double the rate (2½? to 5½? per lb.). Farmers cheered lustily and manufacturers of waterproof paints, glue, coated paper, groaned with despair...
...whether the some what uncertain business conditions that appeared in September particularly in the direction of automobiles, "specialties" and rubber brought the shift in public opinion, whether the recent discussion of the Massachusetts, Public Utilities' Commission unsettled the upward movement, or whether the Bank of England's raising its rate a month ago exerted the final pressure that broke the market is in a sense an academic question...
...consideration of these factors seems to give a certain weight to the theory that the discount rate of the central bank of a country is not the ultimate determinant in a country's credit position, particularly when public opinion refuses to take cognizance of the message of the rate, and when--as has been the case in the late years in the United States--the credit policy is controlled by other factors than the gold reserve. In view of these facts it does not seem too much to say that stereotyped financial theory and business practice are rapidly being...
...either got to be a first-rate actor and know your business, or else have tremendous personal charm," said Noel Coward, the young English actor playwright composer, whose most recent production. "Bitter-Sweet" is playing a two weeks engagement at the Tremont Theatre in Boston...