Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Government obligations which normally would not mature for a year or more. The Treasury is now paying 3½% interest on these notes. Every banker knew that Secretary Mellon had recalled these issues with the expectation of refunding them with other offerings at a lower rate. If the refunding operation is carried out next spring on the same advantageous terms as prevailed last week, U. S. taxpayers stand to gain more than...
...Carl Maria Haselbrunner, editor of the Oesterreicliische Musikerzeitung and honorary president of the Austrian Musical Association strongly declared for such a convention. "There is a terrible chaos in tuning," said he, "a regular musical anarchy. And all because one man in an orchestra . . . sets the A higher or lower to suit his own whim. Why, if any two orchestras, and the best ones at that, were suddenly brought together, they'd be out of tune! It's a ridiculous musical situation. ... It actually happened to Hans Richter? that when he complained of the tuning by a clarinettist the man answered...
...shore station. Professor Claude believes that power can be generated at unheard-of cheapness by utilizing the temperature differential between the cold bottom-water and water from the ocean's surface warmed by a tropic sun. Twice he has tried and failed at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to lower a mile-long pipe six feet in diameter into water nearly one-half mile deep. Both times, subsurface currents and pressures defeated him, sweeping away his costly apparatus (TIME, July 7 et ante). Last week, with 6,000 ft. of experimental pipe, he tried again at Matanzas, this time succeeded. Divers...
...temperature movement up or down whenever solar radiation increased or decreased. With a change in solar radiation of only .8%, temperature was affected as much as 5° F. This effect must be indirect, must operate through some unknown atmospheric condition since at times a rise in radiation will lower temperature and at other times will raise it. More knowledge will furnish a means of forecasting weather months in advance...
...Philip B. Heinz commented on this fact. But he also suggested an economic relationship which would occur only to the hypersuspicious investor. "Nature would also seem to play some part in it," said he of the smaller earnings, "for almost invariably in any depressed period the mortality rate is lower than in years of great plenty and good general business. We do not attempt to explain this circumstance...