Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most liberal system of lending money considers some security essential and the farmers have no security to offer. Mr. Craig (quoted above) said that the farm credit corporations were "absolutely worthless." Mr. J. M. Barham, bank president at Avoyelles, La., said: "The banks would like to help but they cannot for they are already drained to the limit. They are all loaded down with farm paper. ... It is a fearful predicament for these unhappy people. . . . Unless something is done they will be face to face with starvation...
...fact that nothing has been done to repair the great crevasses which the river opened in the levee system. There are five such major crevasses in Louisiana; nothing has been done about repairing them, and it is feared that so much time has been lost already that the openings cannot be closed in time for the next spring rise of the Mississippi. With much of the land below the level of the river, it is obvious that even a small rise in the waters would cause another catastrophe. It is reported that Federal authorities wish to have one-fourth...
Even Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, whose position as a representative of the Administration does not encourage anything in the nature of exaggerated damage estimates, reported last week that more than 1,300,000 acres cannot produce a crop this summer; that in 20 counties of "drowned land" the Red Cross would have to feed and clothe the refugees for many months to come. Mr. Hoover is expected to visit President Coolidge at Custer Park in the latter part of July and at that time will presumably bring conditions to the President's attention...
...Dearborn Independent." William J. Cameron, editor of the Dearborn Independent, last week professed to find Mr. Ford's statement unexpected. The current issue of that weekly mentioned no change in policy. Said Editor Cameron: "It is all news to me, and I cannot believe it is true. This is the first time I have heard of any such intention on the part of Mr. Ford, and I most certainly will get in touch with him and find out what is behind...
...Ford has been operating his plants as little as two or three days a week lately?a most expensive way to operate?and since he is under every compulsion to sell his new car, he cannot afford to indulge in any hobbies which create enemies and sales resistance...