Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times No. In Ohro, Japan, five thieves, offered 2,000 yen by Mrs. Ko Nagashima, snorted, "We couldn't take a paltry sum like that," made her go next door and borrow 10,000 more...
Beyond that, an incentive should be provided to students to sell back their course books which they do not particularly want to keep. Phillips Brooks House has a rental library from which students can borrow books for fifty cents a term, but few people are going to donate books gratis, and the 35 or 40 per cent return offered by the local dealers creates no great literary market. If a list of the required books for next fall were published by the Veterans Bureau, or possibly PBH, and the Bureau were to pay the student up to 70 per cent...
...explanation by Secretary of the Treasury Vinson, of why paying the public debt will be no burden to U.S. taxpayers: "You lend to yourself, borrow from yourself, you pay interest to yourself on the money you borrowed from yourself, but which you yourself still have. To pay it back, merely take it from yourself and pay it to yourself...
When they announced their plan in Atlanta newspapers, over 800 veterans showed up, 100 agreed to invest $1,000 each and to work in the factory. In addition, each one agreed to borrow $1,750 under the G.I. Bill, thus give the new company, U.S. Homes, Inc., $275,000 in capital...
This week the board took a step toward practicing what its chairman preached. It eliminated the preferential wartime discount rate which enabled member banks to borrow from the Federal Reserve banks on their short-term Government securities at ½ of 1%, use the cash to buy long-term Government bonds. This was highly profitable to the banks. But it kept pumping more money into the economy, and helped inflation. Dropping the preferential rate was a significant straw that showed how the financial wind is changing...