Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overridden, because of the bad impression it would create. It was reported that there will be enough votes marshalled against the measure to prevent its being passed over the veto (two-thirds vote necessary to over-ride). The existence of the Sterling Bill, combining the pay raise with a rate raise will enable some Senators who are pledged to the former to vote against the pay bill alone, on the grounds that they prefer the Sterling Bill...
...rats reported at New Orleans. Trapping, watching, fumigating are to be resorted to to suppress the disease among the vermin and prevent any chance of its spreading to humans. Presumably Congress will accept the Treasury Department bid, although it is somewhat higher than the Pied Piper's flat rate of 1,000 guilders* an extinction...
...days before the Federal Reserve system, the simultaneous occurrence of such a series of large-scale payments would probably have disrupted the money market for the time being, and caused large rate fluctuations. Except for the rise of call money to 4%, the money market showed no ripple from the tremendous transactions being effected through it. Bankers declare that such instances as this prove the efficiency of the Federal Reserve system in peace times...
Using his legs for locomotion, the fleetest man in the world can make the earth flash by beneath him at the rate of some 10½ yd. per sec. for a few seconds. Using his brain and an aeroplane, he has so far learned to travel about 13 times as fast-137 yd. per sec. for many minutes...
Illegitimacy is less common in the U. S. than in most parts of Europe and the remainder of the civilized world. U. S. records, however, are unsatisfactory; such statistics as we have show that the only states with an illegitimate rate higher than 2% of the total births are those having a considerable Negro population. In Europe, where statistics on this subject are also unsatisfactory, Austria, Germany and France have a high rate of illegitimacy...