Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retiring $8,000,000 in 8% preferred stock, to provide working capital, and to pay for the development of its new producing properties. Pure Oil Co. last week filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission an amended registration statement for $44,244,000 worth of new preferred, dividend rate still undetermined, to be offered first to holders of the company's 3,981,990 shares of outstanding common at the rate of one to nine...
Last week in Manhattan Federal Judge John C. Knox, having hearkened to this plea, signed a garnishment order-but an order for only $160 per month. At this rate the judgment against Mr. Hammond would be liquidated in 957 years and eight months. Irving Trust Co. would collect its last cent in the year...
...council reported 17,200 deaths from motor accidents for the first six months of 1937, an increase of 2,040 (13%) over the corresponding period last year. Since vehicle mileage increased about 10%, however, the death rate per car mile was up only 3%. Deaths in June were down to 2,860 as against 2,905 for June 1936. President Paul Gray Hoffman of Studebaker Corp., head of the Automotive Safety Foundation, honored five States with a statement that last year's death toll of 37,800 would have been smaller by 13,000 if all States had traffic...
...Mathematically, an unbroken procession of cars exactly 33 ft. apart and moving at a constant speed of exactly 23.5 m.p.h. would pass a given point at the rate of 3,760 per hour...
...salary 90? an hour, $1,560 a year, to paint his picture. Under him will be six assistants, listed as "artists" and drawing $1.60 an hour for a 15-hour week. The 2,500 square feet of dry fresco will take about three months to finish. At his normal rate of self-valuation Assistant Clerk Marsh's commission for a mural of this size would...