Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That Schick, first in the field, should lead in price-cutting was no surprise; that Packard, which has always been out to beard Schick, should cut further was no surprise either. Big surprise was that General Shaver Corp., a subsidiary of Remington-Rand Inc., which claims a current sales rate of 1,600,000 shavers per year, announced it would NOT tag along with the others on price revision...
Chicago's bonds used to be rated Aaa (highest grade), are now Baa (good). More typical of the effect of Depression on U. S. municipal finance, Richmond, Va. has slipped from Aaa to Aa, Milwaukee from Aaa to A, Detroit has lately climbed to Baa but it used to rate Aaa. Best municipal bonds are those in Massachusetts, where the State has power to reorganize the finances of weak municipalities and no city rates less than A. Among the worst are those of Florida, where Fort Myers and St. Augustine both rate Caa (poor) and the town of Frostproof...
...meteorites are worth money as scientific exhibits. Harvey Harlow Nininger of Denver, indefatigable meteorite-chaser-and-broker, usually pays a rate of $1 per pound for these fragments, sometimes more for unusually fine specimens (TIME, July 5, 1937). Dr. Nininger was vacationing in New England last week, apparently biding his time until the lost pallasite was actually found. But anybody could figure that at his base rate the meteorite would bring...
...minimum motortruck freight rates for the New England and Central States. To stop destructive rate wars in the industry, ICC established a new "floor," averaging 1½% higher in New England and 3½% higher in the Central district than rates now in effect...
Whether or not this year's surplus problems can be solved, the AAA last week fixed 1939 benefit payments at 26-to-30? a bu., 14-18? above the 1938 rate, for U. S. wheat farmers who reduce their acreage 31%. Otherwise, next year's crop-control program is substantially the same as this year's. Total amount earmarked for 1939 benefit payments...