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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked it over. Under "absolute" contraband were "all kinds of arms, ammunition, explosives, etc.," and articles for using or making them; "fuel of all kinds" and all "contrivances . . . articles . . . animals . . . ingredients" for using or making; all means of communication, tools, instruments, maps, machines; all "coin, bullion, currency, evidences of debt." Conditional contraband (i.e., to be sidetracked or commandeered by the British if they choose) were "all kinds of foods, foodstuffs, feed, forage and clothing...
...obtain our cooperation in preventing her imminent rout as the master of Europe it appears that Great Britain must effect a settlement of her huge unpaid balance on the War debt since this unpaid debt apparently makes the Johnson Act applicable...
Irish, Business, Miscellaneous. Irish sympathizers could not forget his harshness in the Civil War; businessmen could not forget that as Chancellor of the Exchequer he rolled up (his opponents claimed) a $1,500,000,000 debt; Liberals could not forget that he had been in eight Liberal Cabinets before he became a Conservative; party disciplinarians disliked him because he could not be plainly labeled, could not be made to obey. Complained one perplexed writer: "It is the ultimate Churchill that escapes us. I think he escapes us for good reason. He is not there." Proving that he was somewhere, Churchill...
Harris De Haven Connick the Fair opened with $4,000,000 more debt than anticipated and it could not have been completed in time for the opening had not Standard Oil Co. of California and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. put up loans of $800,000 and $200,000 respectively...
...only technological house cleaning has put U. S. Rubber in the black at this low rate of operations. Engineer Davis has swung a sharp hatchet cutting Rubber's debt from $101,572,400 to $42,144,000, its yearly interest bill from almost $6,000,000 to well under $2,000,000. Last May he got three insurance companies who own its debt to accept an interest cut from 4¼% to 3⅝% just as though he were hiring the money at the market...