Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...section of the Los Angeles sewer system which no live eye has seen since the city's discharge started flowing through it, 220,000,000 gal. per hr. at the rate of 3 ft. per sec., is the 6-mi. tunnel under the Del Rey Hills to the ocean. Last week Reuben Brown prepared to travel those six subterranean miles in a non-sinkable 9-ft. punt...
...provided by the leg thrash, which is controlled by muscles originating on the pelvis. Circulation is speeded. The heart, more nearly on a level with all parts of the body, adjusts easily to the extra energy demands. Muscular contractions demand an increased supply of oxygen. The depth and rate of respiration are accelerated. Continued exercise in the pool makes for depth and fine breathing adjustments. Assimilation and elimination are taking place faster than usual. Weakness of abdominal and trunk muscles of students is due to a great extent to habitually poor sitting positions...
...Scutari, Flo and her charges sweep the dirty corridors, poison the rats, reduce the death rate from 42% to 2%. Ably publicized by the London Times correspondent (Ian Hunter), their efforts infuriate the chief physician (Donald Crisp) who considers female nursing a sin & a shame. Flo goes to the front hospital at Balaklava, catches cholera, gets back to Scutari to find most of her good work undone. She does it over again, returns to London, gets from Queen Victoria a brooch and the recognition which has been her aim: that women are worthy to be wartime nurses and that nursing...
Even a flock of favorable dividend actions last week failed to spur the market over its previous high. Westinghouse Electric raised its annual rate ($3 to $4). Young Walter Paul Paepcke's Container Corp. declared a 25? payment, its first in five years, and Texas Pacific Coal & Oil a 25? payment, its first in more than eight years. Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil went on a regular 60? annual basis with promises of extras. U. S. Smelting & Refining raised its periodic payments from...
...opinion of Economics Statistics Inc., continuation of Government spending "will soon, if it has not already done so, reduce inventories to such a low point that it will be necessary for production to be increased not only in line with current demand but at an even faster rate in order that inventories may be replenished." Continued this specialist in supply & demand...