Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spend beginning July 1. With the War and Interior Departments supply bills still unpassed, the Senate quietly took a recess on fiscal New Year's eve. Result: on New Year's morning a "continuing resolution," allowing those Departments to continue spending for two weeks at the same rate as last year, was hurriedly adopted. Then in their own good time Senate and House went about the business of passing the permanent appropriation bills...
...banks. "Treasury payments would have ceased." As to the profits realized by M. Auriol from his devaluation of the franc last year and used by the Treasury to defend its currency, these are exhausted, and M. Bonnet tersely declared: "It is impossible to hold the franc at its present rate...
...Bullets were still whining past at the rate of five or six a minute. "Suddenly I saw a mangy dog ambling down the avenue. Quickly I pulled out my lunch to tempt him to come closer so I could shield my head behind his flea-bitten body...
Ladies' Home Journal and McCall's Magazine announced last week reductions in advertising rates, effective with their October issues, though both magazines are showing increases in circulation. The Journal cut is from $9,500 to $8,500 a page for black & white, McCall's from $8,100 to $7,800. This gives both approximately the same basic rate of $2.90 per page per thousand circulation as Woman's Home Companion and Good Housekeeping. Likely reason for the rate cut: these four women's magazines showed a combined advertising linage gain of less than...
Readers will find Northwest Passage is as historically accurate as painstaking research could make it. But whether they will consider its author the best U. S. historical novelist is another matter. Author Roberts' contemporaries, though they may rate him higher than Walter Edmonds (Rome Haul), or Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind), will not give him a majority vote over James Boyd (Drums, Marching On, Long Hunt). Author Roberts' friends complain that he has never been given his due. However, the Chronicles of Arundel (Arundel, Rabble in Arms, The Lively Lady, Captain Caution) have sold more than...