Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many pretzels. One rudder gave way and the whole stern seemed to crumple like a paper bag squashed by a playful child. By the time Commander Wiley ordered the radio operator to send out an SOS, the Macon, sick to death, was settling down toward the ocean at the rate of 300 ft. per minute...
...group. Hearstpapers have their own uniform magazine section, prosperous & preposterous American Weekly. This Week is the first serious effort to compete with American Weekly for national advertising in color. Against Mr. Hearst's 6,000,000 Sunday readers, This Week claims slightly more than 4,000,000. Advertising rate: $11,200 a color page (tabloid size...
...decrepit old London house live Julian, a brilliant young musician, his sinister old mother, and Something Else, that is kept shut in the attic. Julian plays the piano in the orchestra of a third-rate musical show, whose pretty leading lady is his fiancee. They are too poor to get married, are too idealistic to do anything else. When his mother is killed in a traffic accident, Julian finds himself saddled with her fearful secret. He leaves the show, makes a success with his own music, tries to forget his inamorata in the crescendo of his new life...
...business of a utility." At long last the root of the matter is unearthed. Although it has been clearly demonstrated that private utilities are fairly skillful jugglers of statistics and ideas, they have much to learn from the government. To obscure the issue, and to create a fantastically low rate-base, the Norrisses and Wheelers with the able assistance of Mr. Roosevelt, have written off huge sums as "sinking-fund expenditures" for work relief, navigation, flood-control, nitrate manufacture, and similar projects. This remarkable feat in bookkeeping enables the T.V.A. fathers to call the power created, estimated as enough...
...proposed changes in the banking law are fundamental economic and monetary considerations, the widespread influence of which has not been adequately understood. . . . Fluctuations in production and employment and in the national income are conditioned upon changes in the available supply of cash and deposit currency and upon the rate and character of monetary expenditures." But he emphasized that one of the "supremely important duties" of the remodeled Federal Reserve Board was "assuring that a recovery does not result in undesirable inflation...