Word: crediteers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Owners of those ears had already discovered that the only man who could very well do something was Franklin Roosevelt. In his Commodity Credit Corporation's purse he had $135,000,000 with which he could peg the price of cotton at 10? or 9?. Long ago Congress had turned over control of that purse to the Executive Department. Cotton-conscious Congressmen squirmed and realized that they were the very ones who had stood or tried to stand in the way of Franklin Roosevelt's pet Wages & Hours and Housing Bills...
...committee. . . . We are studying the problem and doing the best we can to solve it. The farmer himself is only afraid of suffering because of the act of God. He has reduced his acreage but he cannot control the seasons. . . . There is a law which empowers the Commodity Credit Corporation to meet the emergency...
...four-year-old struggle between Dictator Hitler and the Confessional Synod, Germany's anti-Nazi Protestant Church, has been a clash between ruthlessness and spunky defiance. Last week, however, the Third Reich tried a Confessional leader in a way that would have brought credit to any Government...
...Henry Fitzwilliam Woods, counting the words. When the keys spelled out "wonderful" both men cheered, put on their hats, went out to the nearest bar. There they toasted themselves, for from their assembly line had come the 5,000,000th word they had written for which somebody else took credit. Their business is producing and selling written matter at so much a word under the name of Ghostwriters Bureau, which they founded in February, 1933. The word "wonderful" was part of a speech they were writing for a Rotary Club luncheon in Kansas...
...From $52,500,000 in 1929, Hupp sales had dropped to $6,118,000 in 1933 and recovered only to $6,868,000 in 1935. Depressed by Hupp's million-dollar losses and by Archie Andrews' merchandising schemes, parts supply companies were refusing to extend credit. In January 1936. Hupp 's new board of directors stopped manufacturing Hupmobiles...