Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short motor ride with Secretary McIntyre into Virginia. As swimming is his only exercise and as the Independent Offices appropriation bill carrying funds for a White House pool was vetoed by President Hoover, President Roosevelt was able to take no exercise. The New York Daily News (tabloid) started to collect a Roosevelt Swimming Pool Fund which last week, by dimes and dollars from "forgotten men" and school children, had risen...
...Government cotton as they would otherwise have grown. The option price would be whatever the Secretary paid for the Farm Board holdings. Presumably cotton prices would mount. Before Jan. 1 the cotton planter would instruct the Secretary to sell his optioned bales in the open market and he would collect as his bounty for crop reduction the difference between the option price and the market price. If the market failed to rise, the planter could let his option lapse without any liability...
Aside from a batch of bills for professional services, on which he could not collect a penny, John Doctor's assets were meagre-$400 cash in the bank, one $100 Liberty bond, a second-hand automobile worth $200, a $300 lot. Total: $1,000. If ever a man was insolvent, it was John Doctor...
First attaching a stout string, Manhattan's Chase National Bank last week extended its present $20,000,000 credit to the Cuban Government for another two years. The string: extension is to be by successive 60-day renewals of the principal at 5½%, the bank to collect ¼% commission on each renewal...
...Restaurants filled their cash registers with bales of signed lunch checks. Food dealers, both wholesale and retail, were generous to the end in extending credit. A threat to Detroit's milk supply existed in the inability of farmers to collect enough cash to buy feed for their cattle...