Word: fillips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instant effect of his offer of a $3.85 bond conversion rate when the monetary exchange was above $4.85 was to stop the decline of the dollar and give it an upward fillip. Simultaneously the recent Wall Street boom, partly induced by a falling dollar, collapsed (see p. 45). On the theory that Chancellor Chamberlain's fiscal acumen is very great indeed, he was credited with a deliberate and successful move to start sterling downhill...
Rumors of the downfall of the Cabinet of General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who wants to return to the gold standard as soon as possible, gave wild speculation another fillip. Both Judge Tielman Roos, who is trying to split the Hertzog Party, and Opposition Leader General Jan Christiaan Smuts, a personal friend of George V, were mentioned as the coming "Boom Premier...
Naturally, with the yen off gold, boundless State spending has already given Japan the fillip of an "inflation boom" (TIME, Jan. 2). When Japanese bankers mention the inevitable crash to Lieut.-General Araki, or indeed when any fiscal topic is broached to the War Minister, he says quietly, "That is not in my line...
...facts, avoided rhetoric. Eminent scientists were called to show why light beer was non-intoxicating. Industrialists offered opinions as to the fillip beer legalization would give U. S. business?$25,000,000 for delivery trucks, $320,000,000 for electrical equipment, $20,000,000 for refrigerators. $40,000,000 for wooden boxes, $50,000,000 for rail transportation...
...frenzy of excitement among brewers, ex-brewers and would-be brewers There has been tall talk of hundreds of millions to be spent on expanding and modernizing present equipment. While wise-acres discounted predictions that beer would put a million jobless to work, there was no denying the fillip it would give to allied industries...