Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no finer spectacle," wrote Potter, "than the sight of the good Lifeman, so ignorant that he can scarcely spell the simplest word, making an expert look a fool in his own subject, or at any rate interrupting him in that stupefying flow, breaking that deadly one upness of the man who, say, has really been to Russia, has genuinely taken a course in psychiatry, or has written a book on something...
...fabulously wealthy Manchuria, the chief prize in the treasurehouse of the "greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." When the war ended, the great trading empire was shattered. Gone also were four-fifths of the Japanese merchant ships that had carried her trade. Eighty-one million people (increasing at the rate of about one million a year) were bottled up on the overcrowded islands of Japan in a space hardly capable of supporting 50 million. The disaster, which Japan had richly earned, was compounded by a U.S. policy which was designed to keep Japan forever from waging another...
...help MacArthur get the program started. Last week Troubleshooter Dodge was packing to go home, his mission accomplished. In a busy three months he had persuaded Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government to balance its budget (for the first time since 1931) and set up a realistic yen rate (360 to $1 U.S.). In return for the national belt-tightening that this signified, the Japanese would receive U.S. aid (around $4,000,000 in 1949) along self-helping ECA lines...
With all these fat earnings, some stockholders got fatter dividends. U.S. Steel, which had paid a $1.25 quarterly rate since December 1947, shucked out $1.50. Jones & Laughlin paid 35% extra dividend in stock. Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., whose regular basis is 25? quarterly, topped them all with a special dividend...
...Board rates have risen twice since the end of the war before being pegged at the current rate, while only one price change has taken place in room charges...