Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years most of the founding Independents were recognized as U. S. classics, but as public appreciation of art increased the Independents' show lost practically all excuse for existence. The business of discovering artistic talent has become highly organized. Not a single first-rate critic bothered to write a serious review of the Independents' show last week. Newspaper humorists, who flocked to it, privately divided the exhibitors into three groups: successful veteran painters who continue to show with the Independents for auld lang syne; harmless amateurs; nuts...
...enterprise of such magnitude unprecedented problems and troubles have arisen. Thirty-six men have been killed in accidents, the last two on consecutive days in March. To slow down this fatality rate, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation has instituted safety-first and first-aid instruction for the 6,000 employes. To quiet fears that the Columbia River salmon run would be ruined, plans for hatching and artificial propagation below the dam have been formulated...
Commercial paper was boosted from f of i% to a flat 1%-first change since April 1934. Bankers' acceptances were hiked not once but twice, bringing the rate to its highest point in three years and slightly above the figure offered by the Federal Reserve Banks ( ½of 1%). However, the Federal Reserve not only refused to up its acceptance buying rate to the open market level but actually bought some bankers' ½ bills, for the first time in more than two years, thus flashing its clear distaste for the strength of the money market. When it increased...
...Fair Trade Act since it was declared constitutional in a judicial flip-flop last month (TIME, March 22) was Macmillan Co., which last week fixed the price of Novelist Margaret Mitchell's gusty Gone With The Wind at $3. Reason: the book which has sold at the rate of 3¼, copies per minute since it was published last June has been a favorite object of price wars between Manhattan department stores.* Swept back to Macmillan next day like autumn leaves were 35,940 copies of Gone With The Wind, returned by R. H. Macy & Co. under terms also...
Pullman, Inc., because people are again riding in Pullmans at the basic 3? per mi. rate and smoke is again rising from its Depression-deserted shops along Chicago's Cottage Grove Avenue: net profits of $6,-347,000, compared with a loss of $273,728 in 1935. General Foods Corp. (So branded items from oysters to nuts), with the best sales since 1929:net profits of $14,241,000,compared with profits...