Word: rates
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...speaking of the returns on capital invested by public service corporations, Mr. Curtis pointed out that it has always been held by the courts that corporations may charge such rates as will enable the investors to realize a fair and reasonable return on the capital invested. The whole question of regulation of rates, however, is far from being settled. One point has been established, namely, that the replacement value of a public service utility should have little to do with the determination of rates, which should depend in the main on the value and character of the service rendered...
...compulsory nature of this exercise usually applies only to freshmen. It is during his freshman year that a man's habits of college life are largely formed, and if daily exercise is then compulsory, the student will probably continue the practice during his stay at college. At any rate, he will have the advantage of one year's systematic physical training and will have learned to appreciate the benefits of such training...
President Lowell has accepted the position on the Postal Rate Commission offered to him several weeks ago by President Taft. Associate Justice Hughes, LL.D. '10, of the Supreme Court of the United States, is chairman of the Commission, and Lawrence Maxwell, lecturer in the law department of the University of Michigan and a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati, is the other member. The commission was created just at the close of the last session of Congress. During the coming summer it will investigate the justness of the proposed increase in the second-class postage rates which is being bitterly fought...
...presence of the Charges river, which with its frequent floods made a sea-level canal out of the question. The greatest problem of all to be solved was that of sanitation, the problem that the French never solved. Through the wonderful work accomplished by Colonel Goethals, the death-rate, which in 1906 was 41 per thousand laborers, was reduced in 1908 to 13 per thousand. Yellow fever and small-pox, which had previously carried off thousands of men, were completed wiped out. The money expended in bringing about this reform will be $20,000,000 before the canal is finished...
...present rate of construction it is hoped that the canal will be completed by November, 1912, and the total cost will be in the neighborhood...