Word: reverts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suprise and regret are expressed at the tendency of goods to revert to pre-war prices, but it is apparently only the natural reaction from abnormal war conditions. The price level rose rapidly during the war. Then followed an inflationary period when the credit of all nations was put to test and in most cases failed. During and after these times occurred an amazing attempt of the industrially advanced states to maintain exaggerated values in terms of money, upon the theory that prosperity depended upon high prices of finished products, securities, and land. At the same time improved processes...
...Manhattan banker and philanthropist who died last fortnight (TIME, June 15); an estate estimated at $100,000,000. Of this $1,000,000 goes to his son John Mortimer Schiff, $750,000 to his daughter Mrs. Dorothy Schiff Hall, $250,000 to her husband Richard Brown West Hall (to revert to the residuary estate should the Halls die childless). To philanthropic and educational institutions goes $1.001,000, of which $500,000 is for the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, $100,000 for the Boy Scouts of America (of which Banker Schiff was elected president three weeks before...
...Taylor of United States Steel Corp. has said that the entire matter now is "in the lap of the Gods." When he returns from Europe in June the fate of the U.S. wage scale will probably be known. If it is pressed downward, pessimists say that the nation will revert to the long gloom...
There is a certain class of students in this college who under favorable conditions revert to the mucker-collegiate type, long since out of date, and insist on behaving in a way which can only be described as intensely and drippingly wet. Such are the kind that perpetrate the subway riot tradition, and upon this class the Vagabond proposes to do slaughter, mayhem, and bodily violence, when and if a riot breaks out this evening. His tactics may be all wrong, he may only be adding fuel to the fire but at least he will have given outlet...
...Company annually to the Harvard Fund. The policy holder would be in full control of his policy and if he desired to do so he could alter the matter of the dividend payment. By notifying the company he could suspend his payments to the Fund and have his dividends revert to him in cash, or have them applied as a part payment on his premium. If he was in a position to give his dividends to the Harvard Fund throughout the whole twentyfive year period, the amount which he would have contributed to the Fund would be $437.00 (these figures...