Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until last week was capitalized at that figure.* The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has just made the mark by issuing $154,000,000 of new stock and thus bringing its outstanding total to $1,075,597,500. New shares will be distributed to present stockholders on a 1:6 ratio...
...famed "5-5-3" naval ratio among the U. S., Britain and Japan holds good for capital ships only. Should capital ships be abolished (as Britain desires) the ratio would become 1 1/5-5-2½ (i. e., Britain would be four times as strong as the U. S., twice as strong as Japan...
...weak-kneed surrender to rashly importunate youth, had solace in simultaneous news from Smith College. There, young U. S. women expressed either a more conservative attitude toward religion, or greater contentment with the system as applied, by voting 1,081 to 209 to retain compulsory chapel at Smith, a ratio just about inverse to similar votes of late years at Dartmouth,. Yale, Amherst, Vassar...
...Freshmen voted two to one against the plan, and the Sophomores opposed it in the ratio of seven to five. But much of this opposition must be discounted, since the average Freshman and Sophomore does not know what a divisional examination is and is hardly qualified to pass judgment...
...knell of laissez-faire is being sounded in the Caucasus. Government interference has stepped in to establish among the Caucasian tribesmen a fair value for wives. The maximum price for brides as indicated by the interplay of scarcity and utility, or in short by the ratio of supply to demand, is now fixed at $25 (half-price for a widow). In the future, the paternal monopolist will be forbidden to set an exorbitant value on the commodity he controls...