Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rarely before. Rumania's currency is controlled, but a Black Bourse operates full-blast and the Bucharest visitor with valuta (foreign exchange) in his pocket has no trouble at all in getting in touch with men quite willing to give him two or three times the "official" rate of exchange. (Example: officially there are 140 leis to $1; on the Black Bourse $1 will bring as high as 400.) The jewel mart is doing a land-office business with those Polish aristocrats who could bring only such small objects along as they could carry in their hands and pockets...
Lloyd's of London rates have for many years been taken as perfectly sound indications of what horse would win the Cesarewitch stakes, what the weather would be like on Boxing Day, how long Noel Coward's latest would run, whether or not Adolf Hitler would strike. Last week Lloyd's offered a brand new type of insurance: against death or injuries inflicted on the King's civilian subjects by the King's military enemies. Rate for this air-raid insurance: ?1 of premium for every ?100 of insurance. Rate for London is the same...
This year conservative opposition is headed up by the Independent nominee, General Juan Andreu Almazán, running on a platform which promises to slow down the rate of change but to keep some of the more important recent reforms-i.e., the agrarian program, nationalization of oil, etc. Normally an opposition nominee has about as much chance in a Mexican election as a dray horse in a sulky race, but Candidate Almazán has picked up much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once...
Transcontinental Broadcasting System, Inc., Elliott Roosevelt's venture, is scheduled to go into business Jan. 1 with some 100 stations. All last week at The Blackstone in Chicago, the lure of Elliott's name, plus the promise of some 60 hours a week of steady if cut-rate business, kept customers coming. B-S-H had already contracted for 15 premium night-time hours a week; Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. scheduled its noisy commentator, Elliott Roosevelt himself, on Transcontinental. Dorothy Thompson was courted; Boake Carter and Father Coughlin were possibilities. There were no such headliners as Jack Benny...
...years ago it found one: neat, elm-shaded Flemington (pop.: 2,700), site of the notorious Hauptmann trial. With a consistent assessment policy, a tax rate that seldom fluctuated, little debt, conservative little Flemington, near New Jersey's western border, looked good to harassed Standard. Into the tiny law office of sedate, greying George K. Large (Princeton '99; former country judge) went a huge new safe to hold the oil firm's records of incorporation. Up went the town's ratables as Standard was assessed $45,000,000 in personal property, paid...