Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet Sir Samuel Pepys, who greeted me merrily and did tell me some gossip from court, and all the while started at my new suit and I think with envy. Whereupon I did tell him my tailor and it did please him much. Whereupon I sought the occasion to borrow six pounds which I was glad at my heart...
...corn that Iowa's young men were husking was last week settled by the Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Wallace announced that any farmer who cannot sell his corn for better than 45? a bu. on the farm can put it in a sealed corn crib and borrow 45? a bu. on it from the Government. If the price of corn rises, the farmer can sell it at a profit and pay off his loan. If the price of corn falls, the Government will take the corn and cancel the loan. With 45? sure in pocket, Iowa's corn...
...bankers today can create $30,000,000,000 of check money. The entire credit inflation that collapsed in 1929 was supported by an increase in total bank reserves of only $600,000,000. But there can be no flaming credit inflation until businessmen are again disposed to borrow. The current agitation is over the question of whether the Federal Reserve Board should use its fire-fighting equipment-such as its power to double present reserve requirements- before or after the blaze begins. At the Investment Bankers Association convention last week, Economist Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. of Chase National Bank demanded...
...more artistic significance. Last week perspiring truckmen trundled through its ornate marble doors the makings of possibly the most important show the institution has ever held-45 paintings and 46 drawings of the late great Vincent van Gogh. From U. S. museums and private collections Director Barr hopes to borrow almost as many more to round out his No. 1 U. S. exhibit of van Gogh's work next month...
...weeks this summer Director Barr toured The Netherlands, arranging to borrow the pictures he needed from Dutchman van Gogh's nephew, now a prosperous Amsterdam engineer, and from the Kröller-Müller Foundation at Wassenaar, owner of the most important van Gogh collection in the world. Though Nephew van Gogh was willing to lend his pictures, the Foundation first went through a spasm of nervous hesitation...