Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admission by the Administration that Drought-area farmers could borrow from this $20,000,000 fund to feed their hungry families was all Congress needed to clinch the compromise. The Senate adopted it (67-to-15) as did the House. The President's signature followed immediately. Drought relief could no longer provoke an extra session...
...bill if repassed over the President's practically certain veto, will mean a demand of approximately one and a quarter billions of dollars on the federal treasure. About two million men, according to General Hines of the Veteran Bureau, will apply for loans if this bill, enabling them to borrow up to fifty per cent on the the face value of their bonus certificates, goes into effect...
...contractors for their War losses; 2) it would put new, Depression-raising cash into circulation. Investigation disclosed these facts: certificates of $3,400,000,000 face value have been issued to 3,680,704 veterans since 1925. Today they are worth 52% of their face value. Veterans can borrow 22% of that value from banks or the U. S. In the Federal sinking fund for their retirement is only some $625,000,000. To pay them off at this time would necessitate a bond issue of about $2,775,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 8). For these or other reasons...
...became a billionaire-in lire. Only recently Billionaire Gualino was virtually sole owner of Snia Viscosa, the leading Italian artificial silk works. His philanthropies were on a scale approached by no other Italian. Sometime ago, when his affairs became entangled, "The Richest Man in Italy" was able to borrow from Banca Agricola Italiana half a billion lire ($26,300,000), which resulted in an eventual loss to the bank of seven times its capital. No charge was made against Financier Gualino when he was seized last week. His arrest was made not by police but by the Turin Fascist "political...
...wants to start and do anything about. In my own case the payment of the Federal Bonus at this time would be of great assistance in paying off the most of a first mortgage on my home. An ex-service man on a farm has a chance to borrow from the Farm Board but we in the towns have to pay up to 7% or more when we can get money at a bank or loan company...