Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reserve Bank has a vast reservoir of gold and lawful money to lend out. Each has a vaster credit. For every $100 of specie or currency in its vaults it can issue $250 worth of its own bank notes; and, besides, for every $100 deposited with it it can give almost $200 of credit. The credit of Federal Reserve Banks is as expansive as wishes, and as flexible. Men scoffed at the Federal Reserve Bank law when President Woodrow Wilson approved it in 1913. In 1914, it was thought that the Federal Reserve Banks prevented a U. S. business crisis...
...mail into the stove. Proposals of marriage, she knew they were, from gentlemen, knaves and louts who yesterday would not have noticed a sweeper of floors, a scrubber of steps. She burned everything without opening an envelope. Half of them were begging letters, too; boasts from dressmakers, stores offering credit, lawyers offering advice. . . . Marie Drazdorf spent some of her savings for a new suit for her boy, but she told her man, Josef Raff, to keep on working like the steady man he was. They would wait for the fortune to come in July. Then she would give some money...
...building construction, 3) real estate speculation, 4) commodity speculation, 5) security speculation, 6) foreign investments. These outlets, as far as they are honest, have been practically filled. Therefore, the too much money that remains presages "a pretty good business year because we have this very ample store of easy credit at a time when business is active and healthy...
...other 100 percenters- Timken Brothers who in 1901 built a $100,000 steel mill at St. Louis; Sterling Products Co. of Wheeling, W. Va., makers of Castoria and Dr. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin and other proprietary medicines that give yearly profits of $2,500,000. Ford Credit. "I'd say that the Ford Motor Car Co. as a credit proposition equals the United States Steel Corp., the Standard Oil Co., General Electric arid General Motors."-Mr. Prentiss...
...play was fast in every match and the decision still stood in the balance, with two games to the credit of each side until G.S. Incledon-Webber, number four on the English squad, defeated E.D. Pratt '27 in three straight matches...