Word: absorbents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...send him "the ablest railroad man in the U. S.," was commissioned Brigadier General (admiring soldiers called him "General Attaboy"), set up a rail transport system that won him decorations from many an Allied government. An able handler and picker of men, he shrewdly chose to cooperate with or absorb air and bus lines instead of fighting them, hired the late Ivy Ledbetter Lee to humanize his big railroad in the public...
...Administration sees no cause for anxiety in the present crop estimate. If, when the new crop began to move in volume, there appeared to be a tendency for prices to be depressed, the Administration would not hesitate to offer ample loans that would immediately absorb excess supplies...
...fresh Nazi warnings that there must be no grumbling, German industrialists big and small were paying up, but their disgruntlement was such that it could not be concealed. Privately they tipped off foreign correspondents that Economic Tsar Schacht's assessments are, in nearly all cases, heavy enough to absorb the harassed manufacturers' 1934 profits, and in many cases so heavy as to turn profits into deficits. Even firms notoriously in the red have been assessed and were paying up last week, as Tsar Schacht brusquely demanded that 100,000,000 marks be collected by June 15. Efforts...
...politics, the Council provides an arena less formal than the Cabinet in which the fighting service and civilian ministers, perpetually at cross purposes, can quarrel at their ease for the public weal. The question last week was how many more bonds can the Imperial Government force the nation to absorb in order to meet the continued cost of Japanese penetration deeper & deeper into China...
...early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the auspicious result was Japan's greatest politico-financier, His Excellency Korekiyo Takahashi. Last week Finance Minister Takahashi explained that 10,000,000,000 yen is about the limit of internal Government bond issues which Japan can conceivably absorb, and she has now absorbed 8,650,000,000. Mr. Takahashi based his calculations on the fact that Japan's national wealth is about 110,000,000,000 yen and her national income about 10,000,000,000 yen, or roughly equal to what seemed to him the extreme borrowing limit...