Word: fillip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lastly and perhaps most important at the moment, Mr. Morgenthau apparently hoped to give a fillip to the Treasury's $2,378,000,000 refunding program, launched last fortnight. Public response to the exchange offers has been slow. If any headlines could harden a soft Government bond market, none would be better than REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Day after the announcement Government bonds declined...
According to the Major, President Roosevelt's monetary attack is divided into three phases: 1) threat of inflation, which gave a mighty fillip to business last year; 2) credit inflation, which is just getting under way; 3) printing presses, which may never be used at all. Major Angas pins his faith on credit inflation. He argues that devaluation of the dollar broadened the gold base for credit 75%, which would theoretically permit a more towering credit structure than that...
Business for the nation's storekeepers was better last week. Warm-weather buying gave a little fillip to retail trade, which has just about held its own since April. Merchants in the drought districts, however, were demanding 50% cancellation clauses in their contracts. Carloadings were still nearly 13% above the same week of the year before but loadings of less than carload lots, almost wholly consumer merchandise, dropped 20,000 cars from the week before. Ore & coke for the steel industry, madly piling up inventories in anticipation of strikes, accounted for no small part of the carloading gain...
...from sin! By God's nails, Wolsey, if she were as religious as I she would 'a' seen it herself!'" Don Marquis makes the bawdy, likeable, blundering king whose amours changed the history of Europe, a human and understandable figure. And the style has the same joyous satirical fillip that made Mohitabel America's favorite gay lady...
...huge necessity of Federal aid, but also because it means another badly-needed demand on the capital-goods industries which will supply the materials and instruments for the public works. Despite all the efforts of the Administration this sector of business is still deep in the dumps; this particular fillip may not do the trick but at any rate it indicates that Washington has its ubiquitous eye on a vital spot...