Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman of the Senior Class Fund announced last night that constant additions at the rate of $500 a day had increased the Senior Class Fund to $117,350, representing the subscriptions of approximately 400 men. The increase has been due to subscriptions received from men who left College early, and to whom letters had to be written. Since the Fund will steadily increase for the next month or so, no final announcement can be made at this time...
...Socialist Deputies, aided by Radicals, fought a 21,000,000 franc subsidy to the Compagnie Générate Transatlantique to construct new liners. A motion for adjournment of the bill was defeated, 316 to 203. The bill dates from 1913, when 7,000,000 francs subsidy was approved by a convention between the Company and the French Government...
...share, as compared with $7,692,039 or $2.65 a share in 1922. The fact that net sales rose from $168,786,350 in 1922 to $186,261,381 last year shows that the Company's business was carried on at diminishing rate of profit...
...life Mr. Gilbreth has made a specialty of studying the workingman from a standpoint of efficiency. A bricklaying contractor for a number of years, himself, he made an intensive study of this art, with the result that the rate of bricklaying was doubled. Mr. Gilbreth has investigated almost every branch of work with the same result. He has invented the micro-motion and chronocyclegraph processes for determining the fundamental units and methods of industrial education. Before a special background fitted with a dial to record the time element, Mr. Gilbreth's expert assistant photographs the best workers in each trade...
...Prince, however, refuses to pay the penalty. Perhaps he reflects that after all, nearly any one of his brothers would make a perfectly satisfactory King of England in case of an accident. Or perhaps he believes in republican institutions. At any rate he goes lightly on his way and "insists on riding horses too big for him," having apparently no faith in the saying that "the bigger they come the harder they fall,"--and the Press censures him in no uncertain terms for his recklessness...