Word: credited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capacious pocket and drew forth $100,000,000 for wheatmen throughout the land. It was Husbandry's biggest loan. If this sum were not enough to help cooperative associations stabilize the wheat market, the Board promised to ask Congress to advance more of its $350,000,000 credit still untouched...
...reserve ratio the past year or more has been between 70 or 75 per cent some 30 per cent above the legal minimum. Indeed, this unprecedented gold revenue may be said to have indirectly been behind the bull market, since the public knew there were far greater supplies of credit available in the country than they would ever need, and that the high discount rates which the Federal Reserve has maintained in effort to check speculation have largely been a "false front". Related to this situation is the relatively low level which call money has kept during the current crisis...
...consideration of these factors seems to give a certain weight to the theory that the discount rate of the central bank of a country is not the ultimate determinant in a country's credit position, particularly when public opinion refuses to take cognizance of the message of the rate, and when--as has been the case in the late years in the United States--the credit policy is controlled by other factors than the gold reserve. In view of these facts it does not seem too much to say that stereotyped financial theory and business practice are rapidly being...
Knives & Needles. Frightened sick people in the Ukraine kept on trudging to Comrade Dr. Nelski despite his nickname, "The Slasher." With 600 major operations to his credit up to last week, he reigned as Chief Surgeon of a group of Soviet hospitals at Kiev. Nurses sometimes fainted at the gory gusto of his "carving." But always Comrade Dr. Nelski sewed up his gaping incisions with admirable neatness - as neatly as a cobbler stitching uppers to a sole. Last week a stern Kiev judge sentenced "The Slasher" to six years in jail. He had confessed that his real name is Ivan...
...Vicar Hornsby, "I must say I do not regard John Peel as a hero, and I deplore his exaggerated and legendary reputation as a hunter. I ask you whether slaughtering thousands of innocent foxes is sufficient reason for exalting a man when nothing else can be put to his credit...