Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Commerce's October report from nearly 3,000 wholesalers showed a 6.5% drop in volume of sales, a 6.3% drop in dollar value from September. Meanwhile, inventories (from 1,729 firms) were up 3½% (in cost value) from September, 6% from October...
...looks, therefore," said he, "as though we shall be able to finance our purchase from the United States without recourse to the type of borrowing that became essential [last time]. . . . Our expenditures in the United States can be controlled within the limits of our available and accruing dollar balances. For some time, if at all, it should be unnecessary to call on [Britain's] reservoir of American securities which have been mobilized [estimated at $1,100,000,000], for the traffic in them can be only one-way traffic...
...Harvard extends its deepest sympathy-rather absent minded sympathy because here the situation is considerably different. With 50,000 tickets already sold, and the usual activities around the Square promising a sell-out by Saturday, the H.A.A. doesn't have to worry just a present where its next athletic dollar is coming from. The reason for the ticket-scramble is obvious: the prospect of a hard-fought, even-terms game with plenty of color added. This difference in game forecasts is adequate to explain the difference in turnstile revolutions...
...Whitney, a spirited, devil-may-care rider who has been winning blue ribbons on the horseshow circuit for 15 years. Before her marriage to Croesusrich young Whitney in 1930, Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus was well known in the hunt country around Philadelphia. After acquiring the 2,200-acre, million-dollar "Llangollen" estate near Upperville, Va., Liz Whitney became the most glamorous horsewoman in the U. S. Her drawing-room gum-chewing, social-worker hairdo, haphazard clothes were aped by many lesser socialites. Her riding technique became the very pattern for aspiring horsewomen. Her money-fed horses were the envy...
...holders of the B. & M.'s $103,833,000 first mortgage bonds swap each dollar for 50? of 20-year 4% first mortgage bonds (or cash, if they demand it), 50? of 30-year bonds to pay 4% when it is earned...