Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...very cheap money has become in the U. S. was demonstrated last week by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon in announcing what interest rates the U. S. would pay on its mid-December borrowings. On a $150,000,000 issue of six-month Treasury certificates, Secretary Mellon offered only 1¼%-an all-time record low. On a twelve-month issue of the same kind for $250,000,000 the rate will be 1⅞%. The last similar issues carried 2⅜% and 2⅞% rates. At the height of the speculative boom in 1929 the Treasury...
Supreme Court. In an inconclusive decision in the Chicago telephone rate case which sent that seven-year-old controversy back to a lower Federal court for settlement, corporation lawyers thought they detected a significant inclination on the part of the High Court to widen the regulatory powers of State agencies over local utilities doing an interstate business...
...Glaspell's idea is a sound one, but although she has written a sensitive, charming play, it is tedious, overlong. Much of what Playwright Glaspell intends to be an atmosphere of intense nostalgia develops into mere vacuity. As usual, the Civic Repertory Theatre has given the play first-rate production...
...April 9, 1908, steel production was running at a rate barely half of that which had marked 1907. But on that day the late Judge Elbert Henry Gary assumed an unusual position. Said he: "The mere fact that the demand is greater than the supply does not justify an increase in price, nor does the fact that the demand is less than the supply furnish an argument for lowering the price." For the rest of 1908 the composite price of finished steel remained virtually unchanged. In January 1909 it was 1.82? a pound. Prices for succeeding months were...
...eyes, always wore a blue coat with brass buttons. His fame was international. When he visited England he was lionized, called "the Great Western." After an audience with sprightly young Queen Victoria, Webster pronounced her "intelligent and agreeable." Practical farmer and lover of the country, Webster was a first-rate angler. He thought his success due "to careful and thorough fishing of the difficult places which others do not so fish." Once out shooting he peppered a stranger by mistake. ''Webster rushed up and asked solicitously: 'My dear sir, did I hit you?' The victim, still...