Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unquestionably with are greater confidence that exists in the banks of this country today it is possible to consider ways and means of improving credit conditions. There is a demand for one or two-year capital which the banks, in cooperation with the government, may be able to furnish. It all depends on what supervision of lending is to be exercised and whether the insurance plan succeeds, but at the same time the government recognizes that idle money in the banks is not going to make it possible for the banks to earn on their stock...
...battle with Cyrus Eaton: The difficulty to which he was unequal was that of liquidation. As an expert in money and banking, Mr. Insull knew that liquidation, on a large scale, is a witless feat which no one who lends money has a right to expect, and, if the demand had not been made upon him he was experienced and able enough to have managed the Insull machine through a period of reduced income...
Some of the thoughts which have crossed Professor Dodd's mind since he reached Berlin have been bold in the extreme. He expresses himself strongly to Mrs. Dodd and the children. By last week he had called twice on the German Foreign Office, to demand equal treatment for Germany's U. S. creditors who are receiving far less than her Dutch and Swiss creditors. This outrage, Professor Dodd would like to have hotly told Chancellor Hitler, must be corrected...
...Earnings for the first six months of that year were a miserly 51? a share. So the towering, hawk-nosed banana man marched into a United Fruit board meeting with a fist full of proxies and stock certificates and shocked eminent Bostonian directors with a curt demand for power. He got it. They made him "Managing Director in Charge of Operations." From Boston to Bogota the United Fruit organization began to learn what it was to be efficient. In the last half of that year United Fruit's income was nearly three times that of the first half...
...this if he felt the price level was not rising fast enough. The chances are he will no bring the dollar down any further than 59 cents because prices are rising now and there is every indication that there will be for a year or so anyway an increased demand for goods, certainly as long as public funds last and public projects are spending at the present rate or the accelerated rate that will come when the program is in full swing...