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...Certainly by 1950 at the rate we're now going the disbursements for veteran relief will equal if not exceed the total cost of our expenditures during the World War [$21,850,000,000]. . . . Veterans must manifest a peacetime patriotism in future demands comparable to that which brought them honor in the War if the burden upon the Government is not to become intolerable and reaction impair their cause. If we teach our young men that service to our country means the Government thereafter must reward them irrespective of need, then we are undermining the very foundation of good citizenship...
...cash, of which $300,000,000 came through cashing in the reserve fund. The number of applicants declined from 985,000 the first week of the law to 90,337 in the fourth week, an average drop of 50% per week which indicated that total Bonus loans would not exceed $800,000,000. Administrator Hines, no friend of the bonus law. refused to be encouraged by the decrease in applications, clung stubbornly to his $1,000,000,000 estimate for the bonus loan total. However, not until Bonus loans exceed the $934,000,000 reserve fund, will this outlay become...
...that his company would (in effect) barter gum for cotton in the south, would use all sales receipts in that territory to buy up to 100,000,000 Ib. (200,000 bales) of cotton during the next eight months. The market price would be paid, provided it did not exceed 12? per Ib. Last week in the spot markets of the South cotton was selling around...
Traditionally, April 1 is the day when bankers and businessmen can look about them, size up the state of business. All last week figures were being issued which showed that the Spring recovery in business did not exceed the usual seasonal gain, and was giving signs of dying away. Perhaps most frightening, so far as the stockmarket is concerned, have been the many dividend reductions and omissions, although these reflect past business, not future. During March, 114 dividends were omitted, as against 57 such actions in March 1930; 115 dividends were reduced, against ten last year...
...cars of it?steel, other materials and machinery which will run the final bill for the dam and power plants up to $165,000,000. Under $5,000,000 bond, Six Companies must finish the job in 1938 or pay a penalty of $3,000 for every day they exceed the 2,565-day limit...