Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circle the stagecoach on horseback, uttering unmannerly cries in a foreign language. Outraged, he orders the carriage to halt, stomps out to give the Indian chief-whom quite by accident he disarms and captures-a severe dressing down. "My dear fellow, this coach was traveling at a legal rate of speed on a public highway. If you don't desist, I shall protest to the authorities." The chief, grateful for his life, calls off his braves...
Since then, as the gross national product has grown from $10 billion to $430 billion, prices have increased at a modest rate -an average of 2⅓% a year (see chart-). From 1897 to just before World War I, the average rate of increase each year was 2½% as the nation went through a period of peacetime prosperity. Yet from 1951 to 1956, when the gross national product bounded from $329 billion to $414.7 billion, wholesale prices increased only 1½% over the whole period, a remarkable stability indicating that "normal" inflation need not run away with prosperity...
...pace of U.S. business picks up, so does the demand for money. Last week bankers indicated they expect a rise soon in the discount rate, now 2½%, as well as a corresponding hike in the prime rates. Said Hanover Bank's President R. E. McNeill Jr.: "I would not be surprised to see an increase in the discount rate. There is a high level of business, inventories are down, money is fairly tight, and banks are well invested." With higher rates ahead, U.S. bonds had another sinking spell last week, reached the lowest level in years; many Treasury...
...England's next poet laureate. By last week, his Collected Poems had caused a rush on British bookstores probably unmatched by any newly published work of poetry since Byron's Childe Harold burst forth in 1812. Betjeman's 279-page volume was selling at the rate of about 1,000 copies a day, a turnover few bestselling novelists achieve...
...reads" (Margaret does). It is simply that Britons of all classes think Betjeman one of the pleasantest men alive. He himself says that he cannot understand why people buy his verse ("I don't call it poetry"), and he describes himself as "a passionate observer of the second-rate." Actually, Betjeman observes a great deal more than the second-rate. He has a unique eye for the twilight of changing times, although he is one Englishman who looks neither back in anger nor forward in fear. He is perhaps the sharpest and yet gentlest landscape poet now writing...