Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high inventoried end of 1937) and even in a good month, U. S. copper consumption does not often exceed 80,000 tons. If forward buying books July's total copper orders to 200,000 tons or better, four or even five months' additional supply at present rate of domestic consumption will be added to inventories...
...Production recovered sharply in steel, but there too the advance threatens to result in new inventory trouble. After an extra-seasonal July 4 drop, the steel rate snapped back first to 56.4% of capacity, then to 60%, its 1939 high, and the trade predicted 65% operations yet to come. This continued a June trend: ingots were still being stacked up in anticipation of rush orders from the auto industry late in the summer. After Labor Day it may turn out, however, that Detroit's fall steel needs are being filled...
...number of things that the New Deal advocated. To widen the use of electricity one of his first acts was to hire 500 salesmen to sell electrical devices. C. & S. began to extend its lines into rural areas; as electric consumption increased, it began to lower its rates, inviting more consumption. When Willkie took over in 1933, Commonwealth & Southern's average domestic rate per kilowatt hour was 6?. Today...
Certainly no new capital is now going willingly into the banking business, which can hardly earn a living at present interest rates. Chairman Crowley proposed to prepare against future crises by boosting its rate of assessment against insured bank deposits. This would of course further reduce bank earnings, further reduce the chances of getting any new capital into the banking business...
...pulp mill, half of it (the fiber) comes out as pulp (for paper). The rest comes out as a waste sulphite liquor,* a sirupy fluid. To U. S. paper mills this waste was as much a nuisance as used razor blades to ordinary citizens. Poured into rivers at the rate of 3,000,000 tons a year, it absorbed the free oxygen in the water, impairing fishing and polluting streams...