Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grouse though they still do about low interest rates, bankers are currently making a little more money. Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings last week upped its regular dividend rate from 6% to 8%. Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. paid a 25? extra. Marine Midland, big New York State group holding company, sweetened its regular with a 15? extra. Amadeo Peter Giannini's billion-dollar Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association in San Francisco declared a regular quarterly dividend of $1,250,000, an extra of $1,000,000. A big RFC borrower a few years...
...drown your sorrows in Creme de Menthe. Promptly Judge Mack offered the investigating committee another candidate as its "poet laureate," reading from the works of their rate engineer, Robert C. Gilles: I'm rate engineer for the Mack Committee...
Gloveman Littauer conceived the idea of a Harvard School of Public Administration quite independently of Harvard authorities. To him, as to many another, the demands of the New Deal revealed the paucity of first-rate civil servants...
...life. "I could do one thing. I could write. I could try to make other people see what I had seen, feel what I had felt. I wanted to make others as angry as I was. I wanted to see wages go up and the babies' death rate go down...
...seriousness his fellow Englishmen did. Had it not been for the discovery and translation of his shorthand diaries, on the other hand, he might have been buried forever in a respectable obscurity. With a laudable desire to play down Pepys's human frailty, to play up his first-rate abilities. Author Bryant is trying to rehabilitate Pepys as a serious character. Samuel Pepys: The Years of Peril is the second volume of what is to.be a biographical trilogy, and the last word on Pepys...