Word: buy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to have a huge war trade, for the Allies will need war materials. In the last war only 10% to 25% of the Allied purchases in the U. S. were arms. If the Allies cannot get arms, they will take more material for making arms. And they will buy such materials because (without borrowing in the U. S.) Great Britain and France have some $3,720,000,050 in gold, plus some $3,000,000,000 in U. S. securities etc. with which to pay their bills...
...with his Ray System Corporation, Inc. As has many another fiscal dreamer, he proposed to issue patented, pink & blue Raychecks in denominations of 50? to $10, have merchants redeem them in goods or U. S. currency at face value. Redemption funds would come from consumers, who would have to buy stamps and paste them on their Raychecks each week...
...demanded that boys under 20 be exempt from conscription; 2) seen her four sons (all over 20) join up-this week carried on. She planned to press the British Government to reintroduce the "Dutch Treat" rule of World War I, which, forcing people to buy their own drinks, protected men and women on duty "against hospitality by the public...
...Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a sort of communistic holding corporation which collects royalties for the classicists & tinkers of Tin Pan Alley and divides the proceeds among them according to their deserts and needs. Ten years ago the National Association of Broadcasters had a chance to buy ASCAP, lock, stock & Alley, for $20,000,000. NAB thought the price too stiff. But since then radio has paid ASCAP some $30,000,000 in license fees (a flat 5% of net receipts on all programs) and sustaining fees, arbitrarily set and ranging from $100 to $15,000 whether...
This was typical. The first week of war started a speculative scramble for all kinds of commodities; the second week saw the scramble spread to capital goods. Yet most materials manufacturers, who will have to buy billions of dollars of new machinery if sustained war business materializes, were still wary about tying cash up in fixed plant except where old machinery would not do. Nor was the export boom, that has been expected ever since the armament race began five years ago, any more evident than in the past. As Cartoonist Herb Block allegorized (see cut), a war boom...