Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscribers Subscription Bonds?" The amount of seventy dollars, named in the sample bond enclosed, is fixed on the supposition that the money invested with you can be made to pay 5% with safety, and that you can afford to make a subscription price of $3.50 to these subscribers. The rate of interest on the bonds, and the subscription price to them, would have to be determined and the amount of the bond fixed in accordance with the facts...
Sirs: A Life Actuary could readily compute a fair price based on Mortality and Experience Tables, as the average life time - expectancy - should serve as a sound basis for a Life Subscription Rate. The Tables are averages which produce a reasonable margin of profit to a Life Insurance Company; used by TIME, they should result similarly. On the other hand, if one's age determines the rate, you would be at the mercy of the sub scriber, as his honesty might make you, his dishonesty break you. L. G. WELCHER...
...Class Day Committee last night an attendance of more than 500 is already assured for the Senior Spread on Monday, June 17. Of the applications which have been received so far only one has been for a stag ticket. According to the committee if the present rate at which applications are being received is maintained the usual attendance of 1,000 or so will be equalled this year. If applicants desire to have their names included in the box list they must hand them in before Thursday of this week in order that the list may be printed by Monday...
Broadway (Universal). As a play on the stage, Broadway was memorable because the careful realism of setting and character made the high-strung plot seem truer than it was. In cinema the second rate cabaret where a dance team kept love and ambition alive in spite of the machinations of a master-gunman, has been replaced by a palatial and enormous nightclub with modernistic settings. It does not seem reasonable that the clients of such an establishment would pay to see such inexpert dancing as Glenn Tryon's and Merna Kennedy's. Features of the cops-&-robbers subplot...
...week, the market opened this week not with a further decline but with a frenzied rally. Wild was the excitement in Chicago's wheat pit. Opening prices showed variations of five points at different parts of the floor. Trapped shorts, feverishly covering, were shooting prices up at the rate of a cent between trades. At the close of the day, the market had staged a $300,000,000 advance, registered net gains of some 5½ to 5⅞ points. In one day almost one-third of the three months' decline was made up, and wheat was back...