Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government debts owed to Britain. In return, Britain slashed the interest payments on the Austrian loans, also reduced the interest charges on Germany's 1924 Dawes loan and 1930 Young loan, both floated to help the Reich's reparations efforts. Further, Britain arranged to take an increased amount of German goods, allowing Germany to make future debt payments from the proceeds of these additional exports...
Early this year German exports to Brazil began to decline, U. S. exports to rise. By treaty a quota is placed on the amount of some products Germany can buy in Brazil with the "compensated" marks. Early this year she used up all the compensated marks allowed for buying Brazilian cotton. She then pulled an economic trick by buying 300,000 bags of quota-free cocoa with compensated marks. Brazil can easily sell her cocoa in a free world market for good currency. By this "purchase" Germany 1) tried to flood Brazil with compensated marks so that Brazil would...
...through an arc of about six feet every twelve seconds. At the centre of the swing, the bob passes close to a waxed indicator table, and by means of a high voltage transformer an electric spark is passed from the bob to the wax, makes a mark showing the amount of rotation every hour-or oftener if desired for demonstration purposes. To start the pendulum going, without torque, it is held at one end of its arc by a string which is then burned through...
...gambler, Company started in 1847. Very good name; is making a small amount of money at present. Assets over $150,000 but the owner 63 years old has lent the company money and wants it back. If you can invest three or four thousand and pay him back out of incresaed profits (get that--pay him back your money) the company is yours in time. If you can't you are probably out your investment and job too. (That's logical...
...floated the first loan to-Cuba. In 1885, James Speyer, after being bound apprentice to the family firms in Paris, London, Frankfurt, went to the U. S. firm. For at least the past 30 years he has run it in an arbitrary, single-minded fashion. He floated a vast amount of foreign loans, financed railroads, built power plants in Manila and a railroad in Bolivia. But the War upset the applecart of international finance. In 1922 Speyer's London firm dissolved; in 1934 the Lazard Speyer-Ellissen banks in Berlin and Frankfurt dissolved. Speyer & Co. also had its troubles...