Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...improvement so far is cheap money, and from present prospects this factor seems unlikely to change for many months. Gold imports still pour into the country, and the banks are more concerned to lend than borrowers are to sorrow. Flotation of new securities las as yet been insufficient to absorb the slack...
...there is oil, as Oil Shah Harry F. Sinclair could testify. The climatic conditions are on the whole excellent, and are comparable to those obtaining in inland British Columbia. Moreover, the island has but a mere 100,000 inhabitants whose principal occupation is fishing for herrings. The country can absorb for many years all the emigrants from Japan...
...belief as to the basic character of the steel and iron industry and its tendency to increase or decrease in the general business conditions. Yet Col. Ayres does not look for any sudden recovery in the industry. As he points out, there are four great buyers of steel who absorb about two-thirds of its entire output: 1) the railroads, which buy about 25%; 2) the building industry, which takes about 15%; 3) the pipe and tank industry, using another 15%; 4) the automobile business, using about 10%. None of these four, he thinks, will do much buying this year...
...Curtis Institute will absorb the Conservatory Department of the Settlement Music School, in order "to give students who study music in any form in Philadelphia advantages which will not be exceeded by any similar institution anywhere in the world." Tuition will not be entirely free...
...permitted national banks to absorb State banks with branches...