Word: rates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Greensboro Daily News quoted from TIME: "You are struck, on your first visit to Winston-Salem, by the fact that it is off the main railroad line, up in the hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper towers up, its facade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening." The News commented editorially: "While five million dollars are being spent on four buildings, not to mention...
...appendicitis, gastric ulcers. Over the wires of the world buzzed the news. At the hospital door bushels of flowers arrived. Two extra operators were detailed to the telephone switchboard to answer calls concerning Mr. Valentino. (When a rumor that he was dead circulated, the calls came at the rate of 2,000 an hour.) A maid delivered an Irish linen bed spread and pillow case marked "Rudy" with a card from Jean Acker. (She was his first wife.) From Paris came a message, "Pray God night and day for your recovery." It was signed Winifred Hudnut. (She was his second...
...struck, on your first visit to Winston-Salem, by the fact that it is off the main railroad line, up in the hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper (the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., largest in the South, assets, $31,000,000) towers up, its façade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening...
...Steel production is at an abnormal summer rate. U. S. Steel blast furnaces are operating at 71% of capacity, those of independents at 65%. U. S. Steel unfilled orders are 3,620,352. On the Stock Exchange U. S. Steel quotations danced to 156% last week, their record high. Some stock buying speculated on a dividend distribution, some on U. S. Steel's excellent business. At Duluth, iron ore shipments this season are calculated to reach fully 55,000,000 tons, 1,000,000 more than last year...
...system designed to fill in the gap between commercial banks and chattel loan sharks, by which loans are made for amounts large or small, secured by promissory notes signed not only by the borrower but by two "co-makers" equally responsible with him. Repayment is made at the rate of $1 a week for each $50 borrowed until the note is paid. Arthur J. Morris, originator of the plan, is a crippled Presbyterian Jew who sells out his interest in the banks as they are organized, yet still speaks of them as "my banks," which vexes directors...