Word: floated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that more currency tinkering is being considered. Yet a few days ago Richberg assured a Boston audience "that there will be no inflation while Franklin D. Roosevelt is President." At the time the less gullible took this statement with a grain of salt, realizing that the Treasury wanted to float an extensive new bond issue. They further wondered if he knew what he was talking about when he said "When you talk about inflation, I suppose you mean just that--inflation...
...year expenditure of nearly $17,000,000,000, a two-year deficit of $9,000,000,000. By the end of the year the Public Debt had been increased from $23,800,000,000 to $28,300,000,000. And the Treasury actually found it easier to float new loans than it had a year earlier. But after making emergency expenditures of $4,500,000,000 the pump of industrial recovery was not yet primed and the prospect of a balanced budget was still very remote...
Long Beach, Calif, advertised its choice of float queen for Pasadena's Rose Tournament parade on New Year's Day by: 1) popping svelte Virginia Johnson inside a crown of roses (see cut); 2) redundantly dubbing her "Goddess of Venus...
Said an airport mechanic: "She'll float, anyway, if she won't do much else...
...water hop to Honolulu. Nineteen hours later, off-course and lost, the plane's radio crackled out the dread letters PAN, emergency call of the air. Half hour later, fuel exhausted. Lieutenant Ulm landed on the water, sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy planes, 18 U. S. submarines, three minelayers, countless small craft. To spur the search, the Australian Government offered a $5,000 reward...