Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...within the first week of this country's entrance into the conflict he entered into consultation with the foremost figures in the English and French navles. That month was a critical one for the Allies. The Germans were sinking 900,000 tons of shipping a month, and at that rate England would be starved into surrender within the next four or five months. Largely through the work of Admiral Sims, the convoy system, which had been used to protect battleships from the U-Boats, was applied successfully to merchant ships where up to this time it had been generally believed...
...months, at both stores, amounting to $52,625.53. There is every reason to expect, according to the Board of Directors, that the Cooperative Society will be able to show at the end of the college year, a sufficient amount of net profit to pay the present rate of dividends with a substantial margin to spare...
Since this is the case, an actual reduction of operating costs is the only practicable solution. At present the greatest single item of expense is the insurance. If some scheme were devised whereby the government could provide insurance at a low rate, as was done for the army during the war, American ships would be enabled to operate on a more nearly equal footing with those of other nations, and would be prepared to take better advantage of any revival of foreign trade which occurs when the world is once more on a sound economic basis...
...only thing in which Bolshevism has been really successful is in printing money; they are now printing 15 billion rubles a day. The chief difficulty now in printing money, said Count Tolstoy, is the short-ago of paper. Russia is also suffering from a large decrease in birth-rate and increase in death-rate...
...through choice but through lack of an agency to cure them. Perhaps they elected Curley not because they like his record for "crooked" politics, but because they admire his personal traits of gameness and determination--the instinctive feeling of sympathy for the under dog, right or wrong. At any rate, it comes in the end to this: either Boston's citizens are all crooks, or they are fools. The New Republic decides the former; Boston can take its choice...