Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing, he has given a great deal of his time and over $1,000,000 of his money to the founding of credit unions (cooperative savings and loan groups) in America. There are over 6,000 of them today, furnishing credit at the minimum rates to 1,250,000 workers who formerly were dependent on high-rate money lenders, frequently illegal loan sharks, when they needed a loan. I share the benefits of one myself; had it not been for Filene I should not have had it. This is not his only concrete contribution to liberalism; it is simply...
...worth of the precious metal had passed over the table in Rothschild's. Most of it was bought by the British Stabilization Fund, for although the price dropped steadily few private buyers cared to risk a sudden cut in the U. S. buying rate. At one time gold could be bought in London at $34.61 per oz., which even after shipping costs to the U. S., where the Treasury buys all metal offered at $35, would yield profits...
...Larger companies should not take on more boys than they can advance at a reasonable rate, and they should avoid "overpainting" the future to the men; and (6) A current major problem is to place the liberal arts graduates out over the next ten years-- more openings should develop for men with a background in the social sciences, economics, governmental affairs, and unman engineering...
Other reasons were give, such as that the training courses are better organized outside New England, that the instruction given is more specific, and that the rate of advancement of the individual is faster and better controlled. One official claimed that traditional New England conservatism is discouraging to the younger generation...
Infirmary fees for 1937-38 will remain at the $20.00 rate instituted this year, according to Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, and director of the Hygiene department. Figures are not yet available to show whether or not there will be any money left over from the rise in the fee, but if there is it will be used for needed improvements...