Word: debts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan provides that the British would pay their debt in tin from South Africa, chromium from Rhodesia, tungsten and antimony from China and British Burma, and other materials. They would be kept in a government stock pile on reserve for emergency...
...Most appeasing of all, Secretary Morgenthau announced after a lunch at the White House that President Roosevelt had dropped his plan to ask Congress for an increase in the U. S. statutory debt limit, from...
...fighting an intangible rebellion, is bound together by intangible ties of friendship for and trust in the old man. That such a bloc, so guided, can get results was shown last week: the President abandoned his plan, opposed by Garner, Harrison & Co., to increase the limit of the public debt...
...reference libraries, etc.") in spite of the fact that these same papers had lost $550,000 in 1934. But other Hearstpapers were losing even more (the New York American lost around $1,000,000 a year), and real-estate values had toppled. Hearst was hopelessly mired in extravagance and debt and was squirming to free himself...
...previous merger proposals, subway bondholders would have exchanged their securities for bonds issued by a Board of Transit Control and not guaranteed by the city itself. Last year, at the November election, voters passed an amendment to the constitution allowing the city to exceed its legal debt limit by $315,000,000 to effect transit unity. And by last week, when the city offered $175,000,000 for B. M. T. alone, Chairman Dahl was glad to take it, for depression and competition from the Independent have continuously weakened his position. That leaves the city $140,000,000 in City...