Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Smoot points out that the Fordney-McCumber Tariff cannot be held entirely responsible for a rise of three or four cents in the price of sugar, since the new rate is only an increase of .76 to 1.05 cents a pound over the previous tariff...
...wise thing for the New York and Boston banks to raise their rates recently," continued Professor Sprague. "I am inclined to think that there may be another advance because the present rates are still below market rates. The rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York should be as high as the minimum rate on loans in the New York market. Such an advance would not check business activity but would restrain somewhat undue expansion of an inflated nature...
...seems that mediums age very quickly. The work undoubtedly is of an exhausting nature; constant communication with the "outside" results in premature baldness, loss of appetite and general decline. The profession might even die out under such adverse conditions if the prospective mediums were offered no inducements. At any rate, it is exceedingly thoughtful of the Association to provide for the graduates of its college. Would that all professional schools could do as much...
...from the traditional operatic form to symphonic music. Certainly there is a recent great increase in the demand?in America at least?for Italian orchestral compositions. Italian symphonic music was for centuries a byword for insignificance, but the new modernists of the peninsula are pushing forward at a great rate. Many of the copyrights on their works, however, are held by German and Austrian publishers, since Italian publishers have generally regarded symphonic publications as a loss of money...
Since the stage properties of a mystery story are its most important element, this is a first-rate novel of its kind. If not all of the murder properties are used, many of them are, and used effectively. Black-gloved hands, bloody keys, cellar vaults, and shuffling Chinamen are some of the devices. Around these as elements the story is well built, moving rapidly, surely, and with the many intensely gripping situations coming so rapidly on the heels of one another that the reader is sure, if it is possible, to read the book at one sitting...