Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flexibility. The present law permits the President, on recommendations by the Tariff Commission, to raise or lower tariff rates 50%. Based on the difference in the cost of producing an article abroad and in the U. S. the rate change is supposed to equalize competition...
...measure to the Jones-White Shipping Act which granted "subventions" to U. S. ships carrying U. S. mails on long-term contracts. Other factors which have increased the deficit have been recent legislation granting increased pay for night postal work, increased allowances to fourth-class postmasters, rate reductions on certain mail classes. The increasing use of the Congressional frank has added materially to the Post Office Department's deficits...
...Joan Ridley. Fight. Because he seemed to have no intention of carrying out an old contract with Arthur Bulow, his onetime manager, Heavyweight Max Schmeling was forbidden to box in New York State by the State Boxing Commission. The Bulow contract called for a fight with Phil Scott, third-rate Britisher. If Schmeling fights Scott he may thereafter fight in New York. If he does not, the Schmeling-Sharkey world's championship fight may be in Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Chicago. Track. Last week's was the ninth track meet between Yale-Harvard and Oxford-Cambridge. Each...
...most important observation that Drs. Boas and Weiss made is that the heart rate of an individual during sleep is an index of the speed at which his heart must beat to meet his physiological needs. In sleep he is least disturbed by thoughts or outside influences. Sleeping normal heart rates ranged roughly from 40 to 55 beats a minute for males, 50 to 65 beats for females, whereas the generally accepted "normal" rate for males is 62, for females...
...nurse's 13-hr, record was typical of the heart's variations. When she listened to music her heart beat 98.6, its fastest. At supper it slowed to 82.5. Preparing to play cards sent the rate up; playing let it go down. Preparing for bed jumped it; turning the lights out lowered it. As she dropped into sleep the rate wobbled...