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...risk insurance for practically all U.S. foreign trade, the nine men set the rates. At their last meeting last week (see cut) they pondered two grave questions: 1) does the recent course of the Battle of the Atlantic (see chart, p. 26) warrant lower rates on foreign-flag cargoes?; 2) will arming U.S. vessels provoke more attacks on them? To the first question, the answer was yes. This week the committee announced a 25% reduction in rates on transatlantic cargoes (from 10% of the value to 7½%).To the second question the answer was no -for the present. Beforeupping...
...amusing period piece belonging to the Mauve Decade, a play that ran for years to the laughter of our fathers and grandfathers. In fact, if the writer of "Smoked Ham" will look back over the plays preformed by the Club during the past five years, I warrant that he will note nothing trashy about ninety per cent of them. They were plays that could not have been seen on the commercial stage and were worth the seeing...
...when Philadelphia's palatial Museum of Art was built a few years later, Philadelphians began to wonder whether its empty spaces might not constitute a "situation" extraordinary enough to warrant moving Lawyer Johnson's art. The trustees finally decided it needed the museum's fireproof housing...
...numerous complaints of existing facilities had been discovered, but that no single solution of the problems could be found that satisfied all car-owners. The only conclusion that could be drawn from the poor response to the balloting was that feeling on the question was not strong enough to warrant further investigation...
Because of the delay in its announcement last spring, the special course for men in the R.O.T.C. or interested in military work, which the University was to sponsor in conjunction with the Engineering Department, did not gain enough support to warrant its being established last summer...