Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rediscount rates are economic facts of little significance to the layman. Nonetheless, they are of vital importance. The controversy over the rate manipulations of the Federal Reserve Board in the summer and early fall of 1929 and its relation to the stock-market crash still rages. Thus news that the Bank of France has raised its rate of interest from 2 1-2 to 4 per cent, while apparently merely one more fact for statisticians and graph-makers, may conceivably have drastic repercussions...
...League will probably placate Italy by winking at the array of troops, airplanes, and tanks on the Ethiopian borders, to the world at large such conduct can be nothing but the last straw. If, as seems almost inevitable, the League of Nations fails to give justice to this fourth-rate African power, it can be definitely challenged as having failed to observe its obligations, and in the future can be regarded as merely a convenient cloak, concealing without conspicuous success the machinations of European diplomacy...
...crackles along at a high level of reality and suspense, and is a first-rate "calling all cars" film...
...This is the second time Mr. [Richard] Gimbel has been in charge of the Philadelphia store. He was removed the first time for doing too good a job. . . . The store is currently running at a rate which will show a profit, and once again Mr. Gimbel expects to be removed for doing too good...
...during the pre-War boom and the post-War gloom will not seem to U. S. readers so colorful as Conrad's nor so mordant as Maugham's. But as a straight report of a planter's life from A to Z it is a first-rate job. As a novel it cannot be rated quite so high...