Word: rated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House last week for passing, 220 to 0, a measure calculated to save them some $13,585,000 per annum in postage stamps. It was the long-awaited Griest bill, named for the Pennsylvanian chairman of the House Post Office Committee. It provided for a lowering of postal rates on second, third and fourth class matter. On the advertising sections of their magazines, for example, publishers would save from .25? to 2? per pound, according to zone, when they mail their publications out to subscribers. On postcards, which are used as much for placing orders as for "dropping a line...
Chicago thugs became fewer or less successful in comparison with 1926 records. The rate decreased from 16.7 to 13.13. New York (with a rate of 6.1) was better than Philadelphia, whose ratio was 8.4. Boston's score was almost exemplary...
Their prudence is undebatable. Last week they raised the dividend rate on Atchison common shares to $10 per share and no one doubted that this rate would be maintained for many a year...
Almost a melodrama, but good at that We saw this in London last summer and can't vouch for the New York cast. The play at any rate provides a good evening's entertainment...
...methods used in finding out these facts vary with different people. The changes in the blood are studied under different activities and conditions, the oxygen consumed, the carbonic acid excreted, the changes in breathing, the amount and rate of blood circulating, the amount of blood put out by one beat of the heart, and other similar actions...