Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Present rate of production for M. Pochon and his staff is 3½ grams of commercially pure radium bromide per month. This rate is expected to be tripled at the end of 1937 when installation of new equipment is completed. To estimate how well this enlarged output would be absorbed by U. S. hospitals, M. Pochon recently visited the U. S., asked 103 hospitals how much radium they had on hand, how much they thought they would need in the future. Answers showed a combined holding of 51,895 grams, prospective need of 47,470 grams more. Where the hospitals...
...Senate: ¶ Killed the President's proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court by returning it to committee, by vote of 70 to 20 (see p. 11 ). ¶ Overrode the President's veto of a bill 1) to continue for one year the reduced 3-2% interest rate on loans made to farmers by Federal land banks, and 2) to postpone the restoration to original levels of interest on farm mortgages held by the Government. With every Republican except Senator Vandenberg, and even such economizers as Senator Glass voting for the bill, the President's veto, already overidden...
...line was so prosperous that it declared 6% dividends every month for ten months. Ruinous rate wars broke out among competing companies, however, and the fare to Boston was once as low as $1, to Providence 50?. When Financiers Jay Gould and Jim Fisk got their powerful hands on the line, competition turned from rates to magnificence. Staircases became grander, chandeliers larger and more glittering, furnishings and decorations more sumptuous. In 1883 appeared their first iron-hull vessel, the Pilgrim, which carried 675 passengers. It was taken for granted that anyone would sleep better in a Fall River berth than...
...brightness of certain stars by interposing streamers of varying thicknesses. Observations by Dr. William Alexander Calder disclosed that in a year the seventh Pleiad, now called Pleïone, had diminished by one-sixth of a magnitude in brightness. It cannot have been decreasing for very long at this rate, otherwise it would have been the brightest star in the sky less than a half century ago. But the fact of its variability does support the legend that Pleïone was once a conspicuous member of the Seven Sisters...
...Poet Millay has put in the mouths of her characters are lucid because naïve, artful but not meaningful, she has succeeded in dramatizing the rich confusions of U. S. gentlemen and in adding a few of her own. Of the pure cutting edge and organization of first-rate poetry they will find little evidence...