Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what made Florida's pulse beat fastest was the fact that real estate transactions had tripled since 1933 and for the first time since 1926 there was a real demand for acreage...
...added. It would, according to Inquisitor Pecora's method of ciphering. "Other" (i. e. not bank) loans to brokers were a major factor in the pre-crash credit inflation. Often known as "bootleg loans," they were beyond the reach of Federal Reserve control. Call loans are payable on demand, are secured largely by active listed stocks, are practically riskless. During 1929 the interest rate on call loans ranged between 5% and 20%. No good corporation treasurer could overlook that opportunity to use his idle funds. But the peak of all loans to all members of the New York Stock...
...Mason concluded that while the NRA has two great disadvantages. It is difficult to say when output is adjusted to demand, and if the codes are to be enforced a much greater governmental bureaucracy would be required. The Australian plan attempts, by governmental action, to lower costs during a depression and to raise costs in time of prosperity. This scheme has been successful in Australia, but may not be suited to application...
...President Roosevelt's demand for greater authority in handling the tariff situation is granted, it will be definitely a constructive move toward the improvement of tariff difficulties," said Anton De Haas, Professor in the Business School of International Relationships yesterday when interviewed by the CRIMSON. "If we are to restore foreign trade, reestablish normal relations, and collect some of the money the world owes us, it will be necessary to make fundamental changes in the tariff, changes which President Roosevelt intends to produce...
...production. But American capital had previously overdeveloped cane plantations in Cuba; and the depression coming pari passu with high tariff was the cause of the present unrest. From the consumer's point of view these tariffs against Cuban sugar are unfortunate; the American growers cannot satisfactorily supply the market demand, and Cuban sugar is cheaper and of a higher grade. If the Philippine production could be cut out of the market, there would be consumption adequate to support both the American and the Cuban planter. Therefore our antiquated imperialism over the Philippines is economically unjustified...