Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those of you who happened to drop into the reception room of the TIME & LIFE Building a few weeks ago and, perhaps, mistook it for a grocery store or a bargain basement, the following explanation is probably overdue. At any rate, the reception room looks that way only once a year...
...fair was the large increase in quantity and quality of the paintings exhibited. Perhaps this is a symbol of a national amateur trend. TIME'S Art Editor is inclined to think that it is, but the facts and figures to substantiate it are not yet available. At any rate, for the first time many newcomers exhibited their work in water color, tempera, oil, charcoal, and even pencil...
...happens to secretary after secretary, day after day. They must answer the questions of youths who have forgotten their fields of concentration or who would like to know if they can arrange to eat breakfasts in Dunster House, lunches in Lowell, and dinners in Adams, all at a special rate, if they promise never to ask for seconds...
...restaurants off the large boulevards. Movies range from a dime to a dollar, the opera four times a week can be enjoyed for thirty cents, the Folies start at sixty-five, and exhibitions for five run around a buck and a half each. These are computed at the legal rate of exchange of 3000 francs to the dollar...
...beginning to find it difficult to sell some of his products. Although Textron's net profits have jumped to $3,805,000 in the first half of 1948, from $2,841,835 in the same period last year, its current gross sales, running at a rate of $100 million, were off $25 million from 1947. Little thought next year would bring a further decline. To see him through the leaner years ahead, he was concentrating on his Textron brand name products, shutting down his money-losing sidelines. Few textile men thought that a mere Senate committee would budge tough...