Word: earmarking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divided among what amounts to steel closets in the Federal Reserve bullion room, two closets had been prepared containing exactly $95,550,000 worth of Federal Reserve gold. At 10 a. m. Manhattan time the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street cabled to say in bankers' jargon that she had "earmarked" (with her white tags) $95,550,000 of Bank of England gold, thereby making it the property in London of the Federal Reserve. Promptly the Federal Reserve sent a blue-clad, barrel-chested guard to tie onto the two closet doors tags bearing no words but a number. This number...
...editors of the Transcript excel. They immure themselves in a citadel on Newspaper Row which has the flavor of Lamb's India House. There the crisp First National Bank efficiency which characterizes the Boston Herald is not to be found, nor yet the cinematic evidences of Fourth Estateliness which earmark the Boston American as Hearst's. In the crumbly, musty, sooty, comfortable rookery, of the Transcript there is something that reminds the Vagabond at once of Mark Twain, of Horace Greeley, and of Beacon Street. Such a milieu creates an atmosphere most favorable to the production of humorous human-interest...
...earmark $40,000,000 to stimulate agricultural exports; 4) lend $1,160,000,000 to industry on the strength of contracts for new production...
...know that Depositor France could withdraw her gold and welcome (i. e. and be damned). Straightway two things significantly did not happen : the Bank of France and other European interests with large balances in Wall Street not only made no large withdrawals but drew less U. S. gold by earmark and shipment last week than for any similar period during the month ; secondly, Manhattan banks did not up their interest rate but continued to pay only 1½% to the Bank of France which continued to take...
There is no danger that the ordinary, or below average student will be neglected; the opposite danger has been and is the earmark of American education. But the idle, or uninterested student will suffer if the recommendations are carried out. The slow, hard-working student, and the quick, expansive student will profit. The idle and the uninterested students are unproductive anyway; therefore the neglect will raise the standards, and do no great harm to them or to anyone else...