Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...granite tower, the $10,000 clock will stand smack in the middle of 2-mi.-high La Paz.* Cracked Buenavista: "What is the use of having a British clock if the man who sets it is a Bolivian? Let us by all means have a Britisher, or at any rate someone not a Bolivian...
...Maurice Sterne's Approaching Storm and William Thon's Life Saving Station looked bigger than they actually were. Each was a first-rate example of a kind of impressionism U.S. painters seem to excel at-somber, broadly painted pictures of nature in turmoil...
...local loyalties," said Father Krug. "Almost none of the boys here would have been in a parochial school now if this one had not been built. A boy knows his own town and has his buddies there. Often he can look right down his block and see a first-rate high school-and he can go there free. We must offer the very best to meet that competition...
...rightly warned of inflation dangers while others mistakenly worried about a recession, finally thought that the boom was tapering off, but he saw no bust in sight. There were plenty of signs of the boom's end, he told the Mortgage Bankers Association in Manhattan, "in the slackening rate of increase in spending, in the slower rise in prices and wages, in the halt of the increase in bank credit, and in the drop in the net export surplus...
Some figures still favored the more optimistic prophets. In the second quarter, reported the Department of Commerce, the national income reached an annual rate of $221.4 billion, $18.9 billion higher than the 1947 rate. Despite the drop in farm prices, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated that farmers' actual purchasing power would remain twice as high this year as in 1935-39. It looked as if the boom, however long its life might be, still...