Typically based on a particular money market rate or the average interest rate in a particular trading market, different index rates are used for each type of loan. In the United States, for example, the prime rate is the most common factor used to determine interest rates for variable rate loans.
Edward Teller (1908-2003) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist. Teller, along with Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner, helped urge President Roosevelt to develop an atomic bomb program in the United States. Teller joined the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1943 as group leader in the Theoretical Physics Division.
War Map Publishing Company. 1898Library of Congress In April 1898 Senator Henry M. Teller (Colorado) proposed an amendment to the U.S. declaration of war against Spain which proclaimed that the United States would not establish permanent control over Cuba.n 1901, Secretary of War Elihu Root drafted a set of articles as guidelines for future United StateCuban relations. This set of articles became known as the Platt Amendment, after Senator Orville Platt of Connecticut, who presented it.