Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physical "net worth" of the New York Stock Exchange amounted to only $27,570,288 on Dec. 1, 1933, desite the billions of dollars of securities changed hands yearly, it was disclosed today in figures supplied by the Exchange to the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Sick and tired of conferences though the statesmen and peoples of most Great Powers are. there must be a Naval Conference next year because on Dec. 31, 1936 the London Naval Treaty fixing a ratio of 5-5-3 between the U. S., Britain and Japan will have run its full term. If the expiration of this treaty is not to provoke a disastrous naval building race by the Big Three, new pacts must be promptly drafted, signed and ratified...
...passed giving the Railroad Commission jurisdiction over refined oil as well as crude. The swaggering individualists of East Texas have learned that heating their nonquota oil placed it in the classification of semi-refined and hence out of the Commission's reach. The new law becomes effective Dec. 25. Hoping that this will ruin Christmas for all Texas hot oil experts, the oil industry last week was talking of pacts between the oil States to supplant ineffectual Federal control of interstate...
...interest rate was reduced to 4%. Last week, to encourage more private financing, Chairman Jesse Holman Jones dropped RFC's interest charge another ½%. Applying to all preferred stock and capital notes now owned by the Corporation and to any more it may be able to acquire up to Dec. 31, RFC's 3½% rate will be effective from Jan. 1, 1935 to April 1, 1939. After that the rate goes back to 4% until the obligations are retired...
...gathered in its banner-decked playground to mark the day. Said Al Smith: "I was tempted to swap the Empire State Building." Chairman Jones thumped the tub of slum clearance. Informed that the first of the two units was already 95% rented, while the second unit (to be opened Dec. 1) was 50% rented, he waved an expansive hand at the holiday bunting, declared: "I know of no ... safer investment for public funds than to clear about 500 acres of your slums...