Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suits against the New York Telephone Company, which attack the constitutionality of rate-fixing by state Public Service Commissions...
Recently a doctor grafted a portion of a pig's eye on the eyeball of a blind boy, Alfred Lemonowicz, of Paterson, N. J. According to reports the operation was partly successful-the young boy is able to see slightly. At any rate, the attendant publicity has secured the young man a contract to appear in vaudeville with...
...rapid sequence of events this past week in the financial and trade world. Accompanied by feverish speculation, cotton surged forward almost to the frequently predicted price of 30 cents. Although the volume of transactions in stocks decreased, prices were irregularly strong. Bonds in general turned downward under advancing money rates. In Germany the printing presses rendered colorless previous superlatives of financial writers by adding in the single week 450 billion new Reichsbank marks!! Some ingenious mathematician has computed that at this rate 1923 would see outstanding marks break into the quadrillions-an achievement beyond the power of even the Bolsheviki...
...threatening danger, however, is not very great as far as Germany is concerned, as the depreciation of the value of the mark is no sign of her financial status. The mark is now worth one ten thousandth of its pre-war value, being sold in Berlin at the rate of 40,000 for a dollar. This sudden depreciation in value of the mark should cease to hold great fears for us. The mark has long been dead. We may therefore consider the cries of financial panic that come to us from the streets of Berlin, because of the depreciation...
Perhaps the University is depraved beyond redemption. Yale has recently undertaken a Temperance Movement. At any rate, the redoubtable Doctor must be called in once again: "The Beggar's Opera' is an excellent example of how literary tastes differ...