Word: float
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such highly technical inflationary devices as desterilizing the $1,392,000,000 gold the Treasury has been hoarding for over a year and lowering bank reserve requirements. Closer to home so far as the average businessman is concerned were two other changes in policy: 1) to help small enterprises float security issues, SEC eased registration requirements for issues of $100,000 or less, reduced the amount of information necessary in small registrations; 2) to aid businesses which are unable to get credit under existing banking rules, Franklin Roosevelt signed the Glass Bill permitting RFC to make...
...Amarillo, Tex., Mrs. Roosevelt received the "world's biggest bouquet"-a 2,500-pound bunch of roses, bound with chicken wire and swung on a derrick- at a celebration of Mother-in-Law Day which involved a parade with a float carrying 591 mothers-in-law, and 50,000 spectators. Said Mrs. Roosevelt: "I feel I shall think more about mothers-in-law after this...
...Middle Ages. Not half so rich in paintings as the Chicago show, the Metropolitan's boasted more of Tiepolo's round, rapid sketches and one of his ceilings, famed for the azure into which he tossed swirling goddesses, angels and garlands of cherubs to float upward, bottoms down, in heavenly perspective...
...fixed charges" and still make a worth while commission on the deal. Fixed charges in underwriting are legal fees, accountant fees and cuts to dealers. To gross $50,000, which investment bankers generally consider minimum per deal, the banker would have to charge an exorbitant commission to float a small issue. Said Mr. Vass: "The banker can afford to charge but 2% or 3% on the sale of a $10,000,000 or $20,000,000 issue, while he must charge, say, 8% or 10% on an issue...
...city. Safely inland in case of war, less than eight miles from downtown Monument Circle, the airport is completely equipped, free of obstructions, has unlimited acreage for expansion, and would make an ideal permanent test field. To make B. A. C. feel at home, the city is prepared to float a $65,000 bond issue for necessary buildings. Behind such generosity is Indianapolis' desire to develop as an aircraft equipment centre, publicity for the growing city and a "terrific" Chamber of Commerce. Confident that B. A. C. could not refuse so handsome a land grant, Indianapolis boosters looked...