Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn of No. 3 Nazi Goebbels to enjoy his personal triumph in Vienna Lat week, following those of No. 2 Nazi Göring and No. 1 Nazi Hitler. Arrests were reported to have reached a total of 34,000 in Vienna alone. The day by day suicide rate continued to climb...
...orders from the White House might have read: "Take the Rankin Bill; maybe it will head off Gasque." With but one loud NO the bill was passed by the House, swallowed by the Administration and sent to the Senate after Congressman Griswold assured his colleagues: "When you get the rate down to 10% the line of demarcation between the service-connected and the non-service-connected cases is very small...
Mazo de la Roche's Jalna, novels are second-rate Forsyte Saga, gain nothing from being dramatized. As a picture of genteel rapacity, Whiteoaks does nothing in three acts it could not do better in one. Its sharpish characterizations never make up for its dragging plot. Actress Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says...
...Enthusiastic in his praise of the Society's work was most famed U. S. cancer authority Dr. James Ewing. But, he pointed out, 65% of cancers occur in internal organs and bones where "a low rate of cure must be accepted...
...lawful enterprise prepared to pay Lloyd's of London the right price can insure itself against almost any emergency. But lately Lloyd's rate on libel insurance has jumped prohibitively skyhigh. For shrewd, dumpy Lord Chief Justice, Baron Hewart, has applied England's oppressive libel laws so sternly that rare has been the libel which could be successfully defended...