Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through Dillon, Read & Co., and $4,000,000 in England, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden. An unusual feature of the proposed bonds is that they will draw interest and in addition will get 6½% more for every 1% increase in Vereinigte Stahlwerke's common stock dividend rate. The common rate is now 6%. If it becomes 1%, the new bonds will draw 1%; if common draws 8%, new bonds draw 71/6...
...Lord have mercy on the consumer's soul. . . ." Such is the Chase-Schlink thesis. The remedy suggested is simple, though at present largely hypothetical. Let there be established testing bureaus, like the National Bureau of Standards. Let these bureaus analyze manufacturers' products, publish their analyses, rate each product in accordance with its desserts. Then the consumer will be buying not a slogan, not an advertising campaign, not a package, not a name. He will be buying a product. He may "get his money's worth...
...President is in the Black Hills but his watch is still in Washington. As recently as last week, at any rate, the presidential timepiece was still set at Washington time?two hours ahead of time in the Black Hills. The clock in the State Lodge kitchen was also running on Eastern time. Thus the President, rising at 7 a. m. by his watch, rose at 5 a. m. by Black Hills' time. He has on several occasions arrived at Rapid City ahead of his staff; and his secretary, Everett Sanders, now goes to bed at 8:30 p. m. (Mountain...
...organizer of the Henry Ford "peace ship" in 1917, wrote: "Not personally. I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States." In view of Mme. Schwimmer's prominence among pacifists, this answer may well have been considered pert by naturalization authorities. At any rate, her application was last week refused (by a Chicago naturalization board) citizenship on grounds that she was "lacking in nationalistic feeling" and also because she had announced herself as an atheist. Her attorney, William B. Gemmill, said he would appeal to the U. S. District Court. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt...
...which even a Communist might not be able to conceal his satisfaction. The Story of Oil!, like all Mr. Sinclair's stories, has appeared at length in the newspapers. Also it has been picked up and messed with for its political content by Samuel Hopkins Adams, a third-rate novelist, author of Revelry. It is the story of the Oil scandal, the Ohio Gang and the late President Harding, dragged out again and jumbled in with a lot of other sensational copy - the evangelic vaga ries of Aimee Semple McPherson, athletic professionalism at the University of Southern California, high...