Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government itself; it makes clear the Government's ownership of any added dollar value of the country's stock of gold which would result from any decrease of gold content of the dollar which may be made in the public interest. It would also, of course, with equal justice, cast upon the Government the loss of such dollar value if the public interest in the future should require an increase in the amount of gold designated as a dollar. . . . "Permit me once more to stress two principles: Our National currency must be maintained as a sound currency which...
...Izvestia, more grain than in any previous year in Soviet or Tsarist times, a grand and overflowing total of 89,800,000 metric tons (3,323,000.000 bushels). In wheat, again according to Izvestia, Russian production was nearly double that of the U. S. in 1933 and almost equal to the 1915 U. S. wheat bumper of bumpers...
...annual message, recommended a charter commission composed of Alfred E. Smith, onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To the Governor's proposals Mayor LaGuardia had a ready reply, which he delivered two days later with good humor but with equal vehemence: "It is difficult to find a distinction between the conditions of [the bankers'] agreement and any equity receivership. ... It imposes upon the city an additional . . . $57,000,000 amortization . . . and an interest rate which may be as high as 6%-an unreasonable price in the present money market...
...Telescope. Mt. Wilson Observatory's 100-inch mirror is the world's biggest telescope mirror now in use. Two hundred inches is the diameter, $12,000,000 the cost of Mt. Wilson's new mirror, still incomplete after years in construction. Plans for an "electronic" telescope, equal in magnifying power to an instrument equipped with a 2,000-inch mirror, were outlined by Dr. Francois Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory. The projected telescope will be electrical, not optical. Dr. Henroteau and his aides have discovered how to deposit 25,000,000 minuscule silver dots...
...shower for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. by sending checks to set the corporation up in business and get their deposits up to $2,500 guaranteed for six months. Their total contribution was estimated at $90,000.000 to $100,000,000 and they became liable to be assessed an equal amount later. The U. S. contributed $150,000,000 to the pot; the Federal Reserve Banks $131,000,000. Because banks, for the temporary guarantee, are assessed only on the portion of their deposits insured,* the big banks with big accounts in many cases paid less into the guarantee fund...