Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Almost everyone who makes a practise of collecting tables and figures, and argues therefrom, has his own per theory of what will happen to this unfortunate republic in another twenty years if something or other is not done at once, or if it keeps on increasing at its present rate...
...latest of these nervous persons who view with alarm is Vice President Frederick L. Hoffman of the Babson Institute, who should know better. Speaking in Ford Hall Sunday evening Mr. Hoffman made the hair rise on the heads of his listeners by informing them that whereas the murder rate had formerly been only seventy-two out of every million, it was now nearly eighty. The number of corpses, he darkly insinuated would, if place end to end, extend for nearly twenty miles; and in ten years, if business is good, the line would stretch from Cambridge to New Haven...
...runs his enormous plant on a profit-sharing plan?a plan of bonuses, based on a sliding scale dependent on the dividend rate. His reasons for so doing, he explains as follows: worked in a bank as a young man. I started working at 14, when I left school and got a $3 job with an insurance house. My superior left?I had been doing his work, was thoroughly conversant with it?should have had the job. I expected it?rny fellow-workers expected it. Well, I didn't get it; some relative of one of the directors...
...University in a definite shape through the medium of the Debating Union, some reflection on the question is inevitable. And in any consideration there must be two phases. First, "is war the worst evil around? Assuming that war is more to be avoided than anything else, or at any rate, extremely undesirable, how may it best he prevented...
Although the growth of the Bell System during the last few years has been unprecedented, all indications point to the continuance of that growth and an increasing, rather than abating, demand for telephone service. Such a rate of growth, together with the increasing complexity of the telephone art, calls for new potential leadership in the technical, administrative and commercial fields of the System...