Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owner Bernstein was soon to receive a rude jolt. The North Atlantic Freight Conference, meeting in Manhattan, refused him membership on the ground that he had violated an agreement by buying Red Star Line and thus entering the general cargo field. With threats of a freight rate war on the horizon, bewildered Arnold Bernstein cabled a protest to the U. S. Shipping Board Bureau, felt sure the new "misunderstanding" would be straightened out, planned to travel to the U. S. next month...
...Making her first trip from Antwerp under Bernstein ownership last week, the Pennland arrived at Hoboken without a single passenger aboard. Pending an agreement with the Conference, the line had refused to sell reservations, took a loss rather than start a rate...
...last week was the Vanderpoel equation for activity of vacuum tube oscillators. The originator of the equation found it possible to work out one solution every two days. It takes a long, while to set the machine for this problem, but, once set, it whips out solutions at the rate of four per hour. Mr. Travis thinks the machine may solve astronomy's knotty "three-body problem."* Professor Charles DeVan Fawcett, the machine's enthusiastic impresario and financial nurse since its inception, believes it will calculate the factors of maximum efficiency in airplane stabilizers, automatic temperature control, radio...
Dufaycolor claims that its 35 mm. professional cinema film is fast enough to be used with existing lenses and lighting equipment. The British company is making this at the rate of 90,000 ft. per week, and U. S. distribution has been begun by E. Leitz Inc. and arranged for by Defender Photo Supply Co. (du Pont subsidiary). The 16 mm. amateur film is already on sale in Manhattan. A U. S. manufacturing branch has been incorporated in Delaware with an authorized capitalization of $10,000,000, is looking for investors...
...until last week, however, did any corporation take advantage of the new form. Then Swift & Co. registered $43,000,000 of bonds to refund outstanding securities at lower interest rates. The new Swift bonds will carry a 3¼% coupon, probably the lowest rate for an industrial bond issue since before the War when General Electric sold an issue of 3½s. When Swift officials reported that the 50-page registration was no more troublesome than an oldtime prospectus, Chairman Kennedy, happy as only a Boston Irishman can be, exulted: "This issue is very good evidence that at least...