Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money to succor them the State announced a "national solidarity" tax to be collected after October 1 by taking 15% of all salaries public and private, annuities and even pensions. Refugee traffic through Paris-as refugees moved from one part of France to another-was at the rate of over 5,000 people per day. Since people have to carry baggage even in wartime and many of the refugees are old men, women or children, husky porters who might have been sent to the Maginot Line were still sweating in Paris stations...
...Rate of increase in her productive capacity was more remarkable than its quantitive increase; between 1936 and 1938 coal production jumped 25%; steel production 25%; zinc production 15%; cement production...
...outlaws" used to pour forth musical and variety programs acted and recorded in London and air-expressed to the foreign transmitters, briskly dinning Britishers with radio commodities like Alka-Seltzer, Lux, Pepsodent, Kraft Cheese. For a Sunday hour, Luxembourg had recently been charging $2,500, the highest single-station rate in the world...
Forlorn note of cheer: marine underwriters lowered war-risk rates 1% on belligerent flag vessels to and from Europe and on U. S. flag vessels cargoing imports on the northern route; on the southern route, 1½ on belligerent vessels, ½on U. S. ships. Rates both ways for belligerents' vessels had been 7% on the northern route, 7½% on the southern; for U. S. vessels, 2½% on the northern, 2% on the southern. The export rate on U. S. vessels remained unchanged for both routes. The import rate on other neutral flag vessels was held...
...Crimson offers a reduction of $.50 to all those who originally subscribed for the college year at the charge rate of $5.50. Men who wish to take advantage of this offer are requested to come to the Crimson office before October 1 and pay their bills. On and after this date the former charge rate will be in effect...