Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, the H.A.A. decided some time ago that rather than charge students various sums for each individual sport it would charge a flat rate to include all sports. To this end, participation tickets now sell for $15.00 apiece and entitle the bearer to all H.A.A. buildings and facilities. Many disallusioned pucksters now want their money back...
...which, if not remedial, is at least explanatory. Before the war, the University used the Boston Skating Club rink at $35.00 an hour. During the war, with University support largely lacking, the Skating Club was forced to rely entirely on the public, and apparently it did very well. The rate is now $85.00 an hour, a sum which Mr. Bingham deems prohibitive, to say the least...
Barron's weekly business index, reflecting only the first full week of the strike, slumped 15.1 points to 160.2. At this rate of fall, the strike had cost the U.S. an estimated $700 million in goods & services...
...increase, which replaced the temporary 6½% boost the roads got from ICC last June, was almost as much as the railroads had asked for in April. They had wanted a general 19.6% rate raise, enough to increase their annual revenues by $1 billion.' Since then the estimates of next year's freight traffic had increased. Now the railroads expect to gross the $1 billion with the 17.6% increase. If traffic holds up, and costs remain the same, the railroads expect to net $250,000,000 in 1947. (Without the increase, they estimated that they would lose...
...Print, Reprint. The fat figures in 1946's sales ledgers were still below the wartime, all-time highs. Through the year U.S. publishers and booksellers were plagued by strikes and paper shortages. There was little first-rate writing of any kind; it was no accident that anthologies, reprints and new editions of classics were thick on the counter...