Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...budget, it has become necessary for the Budget Committee to mail second notices this week to the men who have not yet paid their pledges. Scarcely half of the promises to the fund, which were due and payable on November 30, have been fulfilled and unless the rate at which the returns are reaching the committee increases markedly very soon, the organizations supported from the fund will be forced to carry on their activities under severe financial embarrassment...
...concert that evening the singers were again accorded an enthusiastic welcome. Press comment was favorable saying that "if anything is incomparable or unique, it is without an equal. It seems to me that the two words might justly be applied to the Harvard Glee Club, at any rate I have yet to hear its equal though I have heard many of the best European malevoice choirs...
Said Governor Johnston: "What can you do against men who will go to extremes? . . . All of us are discussed sometimes and more or less in the pool halls, on street corners and in barrooms. . . . I am not going to dignify this third-rate quilting party by discussing...
...carry only tourist third class and third class passengers (a type not very fussy) between English and Canadian ports. Thus the Cunard Line would attract some of the great Canadian Pacific traffic of immigrants from England to Canada. The situation a few years ago would have induced a rate war between transportation companies. Twenty years ago such a general war took place. First class fares between New York and Liverpool fell to $22.00 a person-but for a very short time. With trans-Atlantic travel as vast as it is now the companies are too discreet to initiate such...
...also pointed out that on account of this the organizations supported by the fund will be forced to carry on their activities under severe financial embarrassment unless the rate at which the returns are reaching the Budget Committee increases markedly after the vacation...