Word: directed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the President still thinks of businessmen as his opponents in a highly exciting political game was clear last week at the White House press conference following Mr. Willkie's visit. He said he had pressed Mr. Willkie for reasons why companies outside the area of direct TVA competition had difficulty in raising money, and that the only answer he could get was: "The general feeling." As every businessman knows, "the general feeling" is more important in selling any security or making any financial commitment than the details of a registration statement. And the general feeling of businessmen last...
This infuriates many a would-be wool buyer who cannot understand the 10? more he must pay to get the raw product. Actually, of course, there is no such direct connection between the future price and the spot price. As on other commodity markets, wool dealers trade in futures largely as a hedge to protect their wool inventories, virtually never make actual delivery in the commodity itself...
...Finance Ministry"-i. e., national prestige and local business promotion. This year's Paris International Exposition, which closed last week for the winter, will presumably also be subject to such budgetary juggling. For it cost $64,600,000, of which an estimated $49,000,000 came as a direct Government subsidy. By last week 33,724,295 patrons had paid some $4,746,000 to see the Fair's gaudy structures clustered along the Seine. To reopen them next year is expected to cost another $16,950,000. In the Chamber of Deputies this week there was strong...
...view was in direct opposition to that expressed by Ernest Lundeen Senator from Minnesota, who asserted that "we are isolated completely and forever. Some of our leaders need to grow up, come home, and be Americanized," he added...
...solution is not a simple one. In past years, when the route of food from producer to consumer was direct and the food passed through few hands, little difficulty was encountered. Now our milk comes from Vermont, and passess through a dozen processes before we drink it. Meat comes from Chicago, fresh vegetables from South Carolina and Texas, fruit from Florida, Oregon, or the tropics...