Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public's demanding $10,000,000,000. Any bondholder who wants cash can do far better by selling his Federal securities on the market (last week Governments were up to 117) than by demanding par value from the Treasury. The offer is to expire Sept. 1 "unless extended from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury." If Government bonds start to slump, Secretary Morgenthau can be counted on not to extend it. Thus the offer will doubtless remain what it was meant to be, a solemn though meaningless gesture of U. S. good faith...
Unlike many other sports, there is no bodily contact in track. As a result Jesse-being a conscious boy-feels that he can extend himself to the utmost in his respective events without causing any friction between his white brethren. Perhaps Tolan, Metcalfe, Hubbard and others also had this mental slant...
Somewhat irresolutely Japanese North China Chief-of-Staff Colonel Takashi Sakai said that Japan had given the Chinese Government until June 20 to carry out the demands, but might extend this period of grace. "We intend to say nothing more," Col. Sakai suavely concluded, "other than to express our hope for the happiness of Eastern Asia. We believe the Chinese appreciate this expression of sincerity. If they do not appreciate it we must regard the Chinese as racial traitors...
Fossils taken by the expedition from the sides of the Georges Bank valleys which extend more than a mile below sea level on the edge of the continental shelf, indicate that the last major crustal movement of the North Atlantic coast of America occurred since the Upper Cretaceous period, 105,000,000 years ago, and possibly since the Miocene age, 30,000,000 years...
...store announced that as of May 31 it was giving a 2% discount on cash sales, a 1% discount on bills paid within 30 days. "It costs a store money to carry charge accounts," said President Herbert James Tily, "and somebody has to pay it. ... We are happy to extend credit and we shall continue to do that. But we feel that it is a discrimination against the cash customer and the customer who meets his obligations promptly to assess them part of the cost of maintaining the credit structure. ... It is time someone undertook this much-needed reform...