Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only statement of the size of the trade was that it-would be for a "substantial amount" of gold. A definite announcement might have caused convulsions in Shanghai's speculative gold market. "We would not want anybody to speculate," clucked Mr. Kung, setting comfortably on his new gold...
Revenues. Federal receipts of $5,294,000,000 were 23% larger than in fiscal 1936 and about the same amount larger than pre-Depression receipts. For the fifth year in succession they had grown and now, except for 1920 and 1921 when war taxes were still in force, are the largest in history. Previous all-time high: $6,695,000,000 in fiscal...
...borrowed to buy no less than $1,050,000,000 in gold coming from abroad in order to prevent its exercising an inflationary effect on U. S. trade. Since the Government has this gold to sell when foreigners want it back, it has a billion-dollar asset. Subtracting this amount, the debt would stand at $35,350,000,000 or $324,000,000 more than he set last January for the top debt figure...
This ceremonial visit served as an excellent curtain for a tremendous amount of dickering with European bigwigs. Swinging through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, France and Belgium, Dr. Kung was everywhere given the sort of excessively cordial reception he loves. This was because China's credit is better now than it has been for years and because Europe, notably Germany, desperately needs a market for exports. China's credit is currently high because Dr. Kung has begun to make good on a number of defaulted foreign loans, promises to take care of them all. Hitler, Göring...
...coast patrol boat Givenchy landed at Nanaimo, B.C. last week with the laconic statement that, for the benefit of fishermen, 2,200 sea lions had been killed during a three-week cruise. The Givenchy'?, crew used rifles (borrowed from the Navy) instead of machine guns, because a certain amount of sharpshooting is necessary. The carcasses were left where they fell...