Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obedience to their rule, the French have instituted a system of reprisals for acts of sabotage. These retaliatory methods are taking the form of fresh occupations, and, in cases where no individual or individuals can be traced, heavy fines are being inflicted upon town and village populations. At the rate the French occupations have been progressing, their policy might be termed one of insinuation-without the least intention of occupying the whole of Germany...
Some Adventures in Nudity The Story. John Webster, small-town manufacturer of second-rate washing-machines, falls in love with his stenographer and runs away with her. He leaves behind him a bovine, 17-year-old daughter and a stodgy wife, who immediately poisons herself. He has an unaccountable tendency to take off his clothes, with or without provocation. He introduces the subject of his prospective elopement by parading up and down his room, characteristically naked, before a picture of the Virgin, until his wife and daughter come in, find him, and think him crazy. He is inclined to agree...
...Money rates remain unchanged, even the variable call rate fluctuating closely around 5½%. The advance of the New York Federal Reserve rediscount rate last week to 4½% was reflected in the rise in the ratio of that bank from 79% to 80.6%. Bonds remained unsettled, and, though stable, seem to have reached a high level for their present movement. Public interest is plainly going over to stocks, and to appreciation in price rather than rate of interest return...
...there are at present available. These continuations include such things as Census reports, "Poor's" and "Moody's Manuals", reports of societies such as the Taylor Society, the American Foreign Trade Association and the American Bankers' Association, annual statistics such as Shepperson's "Cotton Facts", the World Almanac, advertising rate books, credit information. Dunn and Bradstreet's rating books, trade directories, bankers directories and income tax services...
...stroke that Weismuller used was the six beat crawl, which carried him through the water at a tremendous rate of speed...