Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bales in loan stocks the Government had lent farmers an average 8.3? a pound. Since cotton was last week selling at about the current loan rate of 8.3?, it was obvious that the loan was pegging the price. It was also clear the farmers could not get their cotton out of hock. Let the Government make them a nominal payment of $1.25 a bale (about ¼? a pound) and take clear title...
...later a censored recording of the speech was rebroadcast. A polished, edited official version of the text was released from Berlin, while the Führer left the mainland to spend the week-end at Helgoland, fortified German island in the North Sea. Nazi officials did not bother to clear up the mystery of the reason for the shutdown. Theory given in London's Sunday Express was: "Hitler had prepared no speech. He had spent Friday night in a state of high emotion and intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb his future planned aggressions...
...again. In a speech in Montélimar. in the Rhone valley, at ceremonies memorializing France's seventh President (1899-1906). Emile Loubet, President Lebrun quoted a famous Loubet statement: "I didn't come here [into office] for my pleasure. I don't intend to clear out for the pleasure of others...
Most of Mr. Murphy's $6,735,000 will be used for a building. Walter Dill Scott was so excited about the gift that he promptly decided to clear a site on the Evanston campus, facing the lake, for his new institute. To make way, the $1,000,000 stone and steel Patten gymnasium, 302 by 132 feet and three stories high, will be cut into three pieces, moved on skids to a site four blocks away...
...usual when the golden tide laps high on U. S. shores, reporters went to see Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. As usual, he pooh-poohed the idea of inflation. But though he said the gold was not affecting U. S. economy, it was amply clear that the continued European crisis was. Markets were nervous. Businessmen cut their buying for the future so low that three new indexes of inventories published by the National Industrial Conference Board touched the lowest point since May 1937. Most cheerful fact of the week (to businessmen): the sales ratio of twin beds to double beds...