Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Comparisons. The fairest basis for comparing the various debt settlements is to discount the future payments to be made by the several countries. Even in this way different results can be obtained by using different rates of interest, but the following comparison uses substantially 4½%, the approximate rate of interest paid by the U. S. to its own bondholders. On this basis the British will pay about 75% of their debt; the Italians 25%. (The French offered to pay 40%, and were asked...
...highly prosperous career. Captain Patterson, taking a hint from Lord Northcliffe ("New York's simply begging for a picture newspaper"), decided that the bulldog needed a tail. He started the New York Daily News, gum-chewer's sheetlet, which began to wag at a great rate. In three years its circulation was 400,000. "When it reaches a million," said Mr. Patterson, "I shall go to New York for good...
Last week a few cold figures came to light. After several years of preliminary investigation and drilling, oil is now gushing forth at a rate which pours $100,000 a month into the University's treasury. It is thought that the yield may shortly exceed $1,000,000 a year. The Attorney General of Texas has ruled that this money need not be hoarded as a principal sum from which only interest can be drawn, but "may be spent currently to expand the University of Texas...
...same men who manned the electric board a week ago will again be in action, and with the experience gained in the Princeton game broad-cast, the reports will be flashed at a greater rate of-speed today...
...baseball. Though speedy in the field and on the bases, he could not hit a curve ball, could not "judge" a long-hit fly ball. In the past few years he has made his money in the fall with professional football elevens, in the spring and summer with third-rate baseball clubs, and in the winter pursued whatever indoor diversions suited his fancy...