Word: buying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereafter no belligerent may buy arms in the U. S. without paying cash on the barrelhead. No belligerent may buy other materials until title has been transferred abroad. But the Senate left a large credit loophole in its ban of the purchase or sale of belligerent securities by U. S. citizens. It provided that this ban did not apply to "renewal or adjustment'' of existing debts -which would permit further vast credit extensions...
...have adequate protection from any lying or misrepresentation that may distress or injure him. . . . There shall be no secret dossiers in any administrative departments. ... He may engage freely in any lawful occupation. ... He may move freely about the world at his own expense. ... He shall have the right to buy or sell. ... A man, unless he is duly certified as mentally deficient, shall not be imprisoned for a longer period than three weeks without being charged with a definite offense against the law nor for more than three months without a public trial. . . . No man shall be subjected...
...York City, every week, some 30,000 people attend meetings which Jews do well to avoid. At the meetings, held by groups with names like "Christian Front" and "Christian Mobilizers," the streets of upper Manhattan and The Bronx resound with cries of "Buy Christian," "Down with the Jews," "Wait till Hitler comes over here." Only the left-wing press has paid much attention to these gatherings, although in recent months they have resulted in more than 250 arrests and some 85 actual and suspended sentences. (Example last week: Patrick Kiernan, 38, reliefer; three months in the workhouse for an anti...
...boom production has been greater than consumption and inventories have piled high. Unless belligerents begin to buy on a big scale, or home consumption picks up, an inventory recession is inevitable. In this delicate situation, the outcome, he estimated, would be determined by whether businessmen encourage buying by holding prices down or discourage buying by boosting prices. He pointed out that although the U. S. is short of neither materials, labor, nor capital, the prices of raw materials have ominously risen 10% since August...
...feast & famine industry is heavy engineering construction. Ordinarily it does not get started until the rest of U. S. industry is already going full blast, until corporations need new factories and feel flush enough to buy them. This year U. S. industry started its war boom only in September, but last week it found that it had already carried the construction industry along with...