Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beck was far from saying that Colonel Smith is a reprobate, either personally or politically. He pointed out that Colonel Smith, as Public Utilities Commissioner, had never raised a utility rate, and that, by a lowering of rates, one company had lost $40,000,000, and that Company was run by Samuel Insull, his chief backer. Lawyer Beck concluded his case as follows...
...Company invariably plays in Boston during the hectic Mid year period when students have either turned scholastic recluses or have field homeward for a brief vacation. When they return sent are unavailable at any price and in a few days the Opera House again becomes the morgue for third rate ballets and home talent musical comedies...
...Kern County at last got out their plows and strewed deep furrows with poisoned grain. Then they got wheelbarrows, stacked the mouse corpses in pyres and the funeral smoke of myriad mice plumed the lowlands. They died, it was estimated, at the rate of 1,000 for every 75 feet of trench, per day. Gunfire and chlorine gas helped stem the tide but not for four days were the mice officially declared beaten...
...question discussed, the tone in which the facts were presented precludes any possibility of their truth. At any rate, no similar complaints have been made public through the regular channels such as the officials and football conferences. Individuals sometimes play illegal football in the heat of excitement, but it is impossible to believe that a Princeton coach would go so far as to have his whole team use the methods listed. The great advanced notices given Mr. Hubbard's article suggest that it is another publicity stunt and so by now he is doubtless more than satisfied...
Hegeman-Harris, builders, of Boston and J. F. White, a Cambridge contracting company, started work on the site of the new buildings about a week ago, and according to the present rate of progress of leveling and excavating operations two weeks more will see the first foundation stones in place. Efforts are being concentrated at present on the site of the larger building, the foundations of which will be finished before work starts on the second part of the group. The exigencies of the grade make it desirable that dirt be available to fill in around the foundations...