Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chatting with Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace and Canada's U.N. Delegate General A. G. L. McNaughton, Gromyko confided that he hadn't been able to get a decent apple since he arrived in the U.S. Agricultural Expert Wallace asked General McNaughton to suggest a couple of first rate Canadian varieties for the Russian. "Well," McNaughton drawled, "we have Mclntosh Reds-also the Northern...
Diaghilev's "Ballet Russe" took Europe's breath away; and kept it breathless for a generation. The Ballet's heyday was a succession of champagne parties, command performances and brilliant triumphs; all the first-rate artists of the day were caught up in it: composers like Ravel, Richard Strauss and DeFalla; artists like Picasso, Matisse, Bakst and Rouault; dancers like Nijinsky and Karsavina; choreographers like Fokine, Massine and Balanchine...
Last week, Good Samaritan Hospital was formally opened; already, twelve of its 70 beds were in use. In the basement were quarters for Mrs. Starr, laboratories, X-ray and fluoroscope rooms; on the first and second floors, six wards and four private rooms (maximum rate, $7 a day); two operating rooms...
...first-rate record of the Olympics is concerned, Rank's monopoly of the shooting may be all to the good. Only thus, perhaps, with all cameras under single control, will it be possible to do for the London games what Leni Riefenstahl did for Berlin...
...industry followed Big Steel's lead on wages, and began figuring price increases, too. In addition to the wage increase, the new prices would also have to cover higher coal prices (which added up to $1.25 a ton to the cost of finished steel) and a freight rate increase which hit in May, just before the industry cut prices (TIME, May 10). The weekly Iron Age estimated that steel would go up as much as $10 a ton-a whopping...