Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury last week felt the pinch of a tight money market. To borrow $400,000,000 for nine months, it prepared to pay a higher interest rate- 5⅛% - than at any time in the last eight years. For the first time in an even longer period the Treasury's quarterly financing interest rate was above the Federal Reserve bank rediscount rate (5%). A year ago a similar loan was put out by the U. S. at 3⅞% whereas in 1924 the Government was able to procure money in the public market at 2¾%. The highest...
...empty honor. What he wanted out of the Hoover victory was not office (although Postmaster Generalship had been offered him) but power. As National Republican Chairman he yearned to sit at the jobbery turnstile passing his favorites through to their patronage rewards. And to satisfaction of this desire he felt himself entitled, for it was he, the Colorado doctor and Secretary of the Interior under Calvin Coolidge, who early espoused the Hoover cause, when it was risky to do so, and nurtured it from a shapeless hope to a reality by getting Republican delegates piece by political piece...
Even at the age of twelve Harry Dean felt in a measure responsible for his race. His great-grandfather, Paul Cuffee, was the first Negro to petition an American legislature against slavery. Paul's shipbuilder-father, Sam, was Said Kafu back in the old country-North Africa. Harry felt like carrying...
...wheat recovery was accompanied by rises in corn, oats and rye. It also aided the Manhattan stock market, which opened strong in a day of light trading. As far as permanent relief of the wheat situation was concerned, however, it was felt that only a major crop scare in spring wheat would result in continued rising prices. It has been estimated that there will be a world carry-over of 500 million bushels on July...
...keep 60% of the stock in the hands of Ford of England, the parent and leader of his European family. The other 40% he was to distribute among German citizens. Inasmuch as stock in the other Ford companies had invariably enjoyed a rapid rise from its offering quotation, Berliners felt confident that a log-mark share would soon be selling at 200 or 250 marks. Then, unexpectedly, came the announcement that instead of selling the new issue by popular subscription. Mr. Ford was allowing it all to go to I. G. Farbenindustrie, Germany's famed Dye Trust. Furthermore...