Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self-supporting student is in a highly developed loan fund system and increasing service and efficiency in personnel and employment bureaus. A college education is supposed to endow the average man with an adequate earning capacity which would enable him to repay a long term loan at a reasonable rate of interest. The injustice under such a system would be negligible and would enable the universities to be in a degree, at least, self-supporting them selves...
Position Present Rate New Rate...
Kermit Roosevelt and John M. Franklin, with no pomp but little circumstance, began the rate war. They are respectively the sons of the late President Roosevelt and President Philip Albright Small Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine; and respectively they are the president and vice president of the Roosevelt Line, which operates U. S. Shipping Board vessels between India and U. S. ports on the North Atlantic...
Last week contract time came again and again the Roosevelt Line sought to break into the jute trade. Nor did they come softly. They brandished before the eyes of shippers and importers of jute a freight rate card. That card offered to carry a ton of jute from Calcutta to New York or Boston for approximately $4. The rate had been $7.90 a ton. The Cunard-Brocklebank officials read the Roosevelt Line rate figures and, counting well on the loyalties of old clients, reduced their rate to $4.50 a ton. A rate...
...personal photographic work will be done at Notman's Studio and appointments have been assigned at the rate of 60 a day until the mid-year examinations begin. Men should go to have their pictures taken on the day of their appointment at any time between 8.30 and 3 o'clock...