Word: exceeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the Federal Reserve Banks could be pressed into service by an amendment to .the Federal Reserve Act. Final result was a bill passed three weeks ago by the Senate to provide for total RFC and Federal Reserve Bank loans of $530,000,000, no single RFC loan to exceed $1,000,000. As amended by the House last week the bill limited the total to $440,000,000, no RFC loan to exceed $100,000. As the measure went to conference, a compromise at $500,000 maximum per loan seemed likely...
...Western Union vice president dismissed as gross exaggerations reports that his company had sent out 10,000 telegrams, suggesting protest. But Deputy NRAdministrator Peebles said, he has seen copies of messages sent to customers whose telegraph bills did not exceed $2 per month. The vice president replied: "I cannot account for the indiscretions of subordinates...
Signing the sugar control bill (TIME, April 30), the President ordered the duty on Cuban sugar cut from 2? to 1½?a lb. with the proviso that the processing tax imposed should not exceed the tariff cut. Also signed was the Revenue...
...induce some of the impartial police, personally, to join us: Chief Cato. for example. I may ask some picked ranchers to come in on it and your Mr. Secretary Smith could invite the highbrow newspapermen he sees daily. They might have a sense of humor. If the fund should exceed the price of one cheap typewriter I'll keep the difference for the purchase of another if the first one should be wrecked in some righteous raid...
April 16. Germany sends a note to Britain demanding the right to an air force of short-range planes (excluding bombers) not to exceed 30% of the combined air forces of Germany's neighbors, or 50% of the French air force (2,286 planes) at once, and full air equality with Germany's neighbors to begin after five years. To the world's alarm, Germany's 1934 budget adds some 40% to her army appropriation, triples the 1933 outlay for air defenses - an increase of 352,000,000 marks...