Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allies?France and Belgium?swooped down upon unsuspecting Germans at Essen, Recklinghausen, Dortmund and dragged away 1,700,000,000,000 marks. It did not matter; the Reichsbank has more than 1,182,038,536,000,000 more paper marks, and at the present rate they may even reach the impossible figure of a quintillion, i.e., 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 marks...
...postage stamp was abolished in Germany, owing to the cost of printing being greater than the face value of the stamps. Hereafter German letters will bear a cancellation indicating that postage has been paid. The lightest letter from Germany costs, at the present rate of exchange, 200,000 marks to deliver...
...registration of 930 men in the Freshman class. When the enrollment figures for the entering class rise in three years from 621 to 930, no question of classification of transfers can after the fundamental fact that the size of the student body is increasing at a dangerously rapid rate...
McCann pleads for the use of natural sugars, such as honey, as the best dietetic aid to forestall diabetes. It is the artificial confections and syrups of civiliged life that are raising the diabetes rate, he says...
...business now on the Company's books is the lowest in 16 months, and at the current rate of production is enough to keep the plants going about five months. The new orders received during the month amounted to about 700,000 tons, of which 200,000 tons were railroad orders. At this rate, should it persist, plants could be operated at only about 50% of their present capacity. The company has accordingly reduced operations to about 85% capacity, as compared with 70 to 75% for the independent companies...