Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accrued interest, bringing the French Debt down to something like a round $4,000,000,000. Interest was to begin at ½% and increase¼% each year until the 13th year, when it would reach 3½%, the remainder of the principal to be paid off with that rate of interest over a period of about 62 years...
...year for five years, $60,000,000 a year for seven years, and $100,000,000 a year for 56 years. This would make a total payment of $6,220,000,000 over 68 years. It might be calculated as repayment of the principal with a very low rate of interest or (as the Americans said in reply) of interest at 4V2% and repayment of less than half of the principal-only $1,750,000,000. This proposal was evidently that on which the French hoped to succeed. The American Debt Funding Commission was divided as to whether it should...
...Pork--"The Show-Off" at 8.10. The only first-rate comedy in town...
Perhaps it was for such a glimpse that a reporter was staring in the lobby of the Algonquin last week. He must have received a first-rate shock, for there he perceived before him no literary lion, no theatrical celebrity-but Commander Evangeline Booth of the U. S. Salvation Army and two gentlemen...
...attack can hit the short side with almost the same strength as that with which it can hit the long. At any rate everything on the short side does not seem to be sacrificed for the sake of strength on the long. The old Harvard flavor seems to remain for the most part in the assignments. An advance, however, is made here in pulling a man quite regularly out of the off side of the line and getting him into the interference. Most encouraging of all from an offensive point of view was the improved and increased effectiveness...