Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today, there is a shortage of risk capital that threatens to slow the pace of industrial progress. In the past five years, corporations have needed $39.3 billion in outside funds for expansion. Of this total, they have raised only $3.9 billion in new stock issues, have had to borrow the rest. The melancholy fact is that only a relative handful of Americans are willing to "take a chance" on the nation's economic might by buying shares in U.S. industry...
This week any Democrat in the U.S. could borrow Will Rogers' words and describe his own status with as much accuracy as humor. Seven months after the great defeat, the Democratic Party is disorganized, in debt and leaderless. Its condition is one that John Fischer, general book editor of Harper & Bros, and a worker in Adlai Stevenson's camp last year, has diagnosed as "intellectual anemia" and "almost total collapse of the . . . organization...
...Storing wheat is especially attractive to farmers now that the spread between the market price of wheat and the Government-loan price is the greatest on record. The farmer could sell his wheat in Chicago last week for around $2.04 a bushel. But if he stored it, he could borrow $2.54 from the Government, pledging the grain as security. If prices do not rise, he can let the Government take his wheat. One hitch: grain is eligible for support only if it is stored in Government-approved places...
...ordinary individuals want to buy them and tuck them away. In its wake came additional rises in general interest on loans, mortgages, etc. There are already loud complaints that money is too tight. Actually, credit is still rising. However, the credit base is not expanding enough to let everyone borrow all he wants...
...penalized growth and efficiency. It hits the smaller companies hardest. It confiscates the profits needed for expansion, and keeps the return so low that small companies have found it difficult or impossible to borrow money needed for expansion. Example: Georgia's Southwire Co., which saw an opportunity to cash in on the South's utility expansion, had the ill luck to go into business in 1950 after EPT. It was able to make only 1¼% profit despite a tripling of sales-a return so low that banks would not risk giving it a loan. Michigan...