Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile last week Premier Blum staked his Government's prestige on an appeal to the French small-Capitalist class to buy up a huge "baby bond" issue, broken into shares as low as $6.60 apiece. For the occasion the Bank of France, threatened with partial nationalization, lowered the discount rate to 3% and announced that gold reserves were up, the flight of gold from France ended...
...Flynn. The Republicans "earned a cheer for having accepted the principle of social security." James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries." All of which indicated that in his 36 years in the newspaper business, Roy Howard has learned, like a movie hero's wife, how to be an office holder's best pal and severest critic...
...Canadian Province of Alberta which elected W. C. Aberhart as Premier on a Social Credit platform recently (1 made the platform effective and began paying a $25-a-month dividend to every citizen, 2 defaulted payment on two bond issues, 3 refused to accept financial aid from the Dominion Treasury, 4 impeached its Premier, 5 prevailed upon the founder of Social Credit to assist in making the plan effective...
...publications reflect the temper of their communities more accurately than the Bawl Street Journal, annual parody of the sedate Wall Street Journal. Put out by the Bond Club of New York in connection with its annual field day, the Bawl Street Journal is edited by John A. Straley, a literate, sardonic Wall Streeter who is now advertising manager for Lord, Abbett & Co., investment dealers. Last week, while the Bond Club was frolicking in Sleepy Hollow, N. Y., more than 10,000 people paid 50? per copy to read the contributions Editor Straley had accepted for his "Stage Money Edition...
...colonizing the vast wastes of the Empire State Building," related the Bawl Street Journal. "By nine o'clock last night all the pioneers had staked out claims on the plateau-like stretches between the fortieth and eightieth parallel. Little watch fires gleamed in hundreds of windows while hungry bond and insurance salesmen prowled below on Fifth Avenue, snarling and pointing menacingly at the clifflike structure...