Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury and Post Office appropriation bill had reached the President's desk. Three other appropriation bills were ready for Senate-House conferees, eight were waiting House or Senate* action. To provide pay for federal employees in fiscal 1948, Congress would have to authorize continued spending at the present rate until the legislative snarl could be untangled...
Mechanically, U.N. worked. It was using up document paper at the rate of 2,000 tons a year, and 22,000 phone calls were going through its switchboards every day. Last week, U.N. technicians demonstrated how fast their radio teletype is: a query to the U.N. office in Geneva brought a flash right back: "Having a heat wave. . . . Lake Geneva looks most romantic under a summer moon...
...magnificent artistic medium, worthy of comparison to Elizabethan drama or Russian fiction of the last century. Perhaps symbolically for our age, its finest examples are not attributable to one man, author, script-writer, producer, director, or the actors. If any of these fail, the movie cannot be first-rate, and that is very likely the most important reason why the percentage of excellent films is so small. "Great Expectations" is a great picture. No one factor made it so. The novel by Dickens is not one of his very best, but it is rich with the crowded, humorous, hypocritical, grotesque...
...thought that this would close the books. With one hand the U.S. has been spending millions for food and materials to keep Germany going. With the other, its monetary fumbling has resulted in debasing German currency at such a rate that the whole monetary system is ready to collapse. The U.S. had given the Italians $205 million to repay them for the invasion lire which it pumped into their economy and for lire purchased from them. In Germany, where the amount of invasion currency put out was upwards of six times greater, due mainly to the Russians...
Light Pound. The Newpacot Corp., exporters, advertised in the Wall Street Journal for anyone "interested in purchasing ?67,500 blocked sterling in London at a big discount." President C. Y. Wang, up against the international dollar shortage, explained that the "big discount" was "10% or more" on the official rate of $4.03. The New York price for sterling notes is $3.20 but an individual can only take ?20 into England...