Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fact is, polls of public opinion on Neutrality have strongly supported the well-known Hull-Roosevelt desire to support the Democracies (with arms but not men) against the Dictators. The Bloom bill, passed by the House but now allowed to die in the Senate, was not wholly unacceptable to Messrs. Hull & Roosevelt because its embargo exempted airplanes, motors and the like, which England and France need badly. Under the present Neutrality Law if Hitler marches before September U. S. manufacturers must be stopped from delivering some $175,000,000 worth of airplanes, etc. which" have Been ordered...
...House gave up a provision restricting TVA's operations to the Tennessee River's watershed, but achieved the same limitation for the time being by earmarking all the new money for specific purchases, thus requiring TVA to apply to Congress again before starting any more projects. The bill went to the President...
...that seemed best calculated to damage the Monroe Doctrine. The U. S. would thus find its neutrality policy contravening an even older policy and threatening the safety of the Panama Canal, which is vital to the two-ocean effectiveness of the U. S. fleet. For this reason the present bill provides exceptions virtually excusing the U. S. from mandatory neutrality in any Latin-American...
...Government introduced in the House of Commons a bill which will authorize credits of $300,000,000 to Britain's allies. Poland will receive the lion's share of the credits (one estimate had it that the Polish loan would amount to $200,000,000), but Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Egypt are also expected to share. Almost all the money, which will be lent through the Board of Trade, the British equivalent of the U. S. Department of Commerce will be spent in Britain to buy munitions, raw materials, war supplies. About $30,000,000 can be used...
...would write down its $581,285,157 paper assets to $144,528,214. In this $436,756,943 write-off-one of two stupendous deflations of book values in the history of the inflating utility industry*-SEC concurred. Before the year was out United made still another obeisance to Bill Douglas and SEC: it registered as a holding company. In doing so President George Howard announced that United intended to reduce its holdings in its four main holding company investments (eventually to less than 10% of each) that it "has determined to continue as an investment company and. as opportunity...