Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke's immediate object is to raise 100,000,000 rubles ($51,400,000, pre-War rate) for his propaganda campaign. He appointed the Cossack General, Krasnov, as his aide-de-camp, and rented the Villa Choigny at Sauteny, Seine-et-Oise, as the temporary headquarters of the new movement...
Thousands of sacks of mail were piled up in the post offices. The telgraphic and telephonic systems were paralyzed. The stock exchange was forced to close; the banks were prevented from doing business, owing to non-delivery of the foreign rate; ordinary trade in Vienna was brought to a standstill because no mail was distributed: the nation was faced with a gloomy Christmas...
...leading authorities on rare gases and earths, speaking last week before the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at Washington, out lined the probable future developments of helium and the Government's program for it. The gas is going to waste in the U. S. at the rate of 500,000,000 cubic feet annually. It occurs as a constituent of the natural gas produced from wells in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas, in Oklahoma and in Kansas. These are, in fact, the only large sources in the world. There is enough gas available to keep filled, ready...
...most of them bristle with aculeate personalities, funny only to those in the know. The Lampoon has reason to be proud of the ease, decency, and geniality with which it reflects the spirit of the College. To have these qualities without being obscure, clubby, or dull seems at any rate the particular distinction of this Christmas number...
...first place it will spoil Queen Marie's imperialistic dream--a dream of a Balkan federation swayed by herself and her children. Moreover, with Greece's example before them other peoples may begin to feel that the Rumanian queen has overreached herself in her ambition. At any rate if Greece continues to revivify at the present rate, the Balkan pot, always near the fire, is likely to be set once more a boiling...