Word: dump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thirty years." Observed Shaw: "Then you soon will drive as well as I." Last week Driver Shaw drove a rented automobile into a ditch, jolting himself severely and injuring his wife's wrist. Meanwhile he heard from London that his ten-year-old fight to have a garbage dump removed from the vicinity of his Hertfordshire home had finally succeeded...
...rediscount privilege.? Not one nickel will the Reserve lend on the best industrial bonds, on prime stocks or on A-1 real estate mortgages. In its effort to keep liquid to meet depositors' demands, a bank which has exhausted all its assets eligible for Reserve borrowing must dump its other securities on the market to raise more cash. This dumping deflates values all the more, scares the public, increases the popular demand for ready cash. Bank after bank has failed only for examiners to discover that while it was short of cash and rediscountable paper it had plenty...
Newspapers, whose publicity had made a "big shot" out of a sly little hoodlum, could find little that was kind or colorful to write into Diamond's obituary and had to content themselves with smart references to him as the underworld's "clay pigeon." and "ammunition dump." Six months ago the New Yorker counted up his eleven wounds, christened him "Big Shot-at," predicted his early demise...
...before," said gloomy J. de Fesche of the Société Céramique last week. "in the history of the Dutch ceramic industry was the situation as catastrophic as now." Other Dutch potters sadly nodded their heads. The fall of the pound has enabled British potmakers to dump their receptacles in Holland...
...small, have been sold some $15,000,000,000 in foreign securities which have depreciated in value to about $12,000,000,000. Senator Johnson wanted know: Who issued these foreign securities in the U. S.? What was their cor mission? Did they retain any for ther selves or dump them all on the public? What political dickering was behind each issue? How much did worthless foreign bonds have to do with bank failures? The Senate Finance Committee prepared answer these questions by summoning ranking officers of the following big banking houses: J. P. Morgan & Co.; Kuh Loeb & Co.; National...