Word: floated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delightful. Making the usual concession to conviction it starts in the musical comedy kingdom of Taronia, which, despite the idy-llie happiness of its people, is sadly in need of these nice, fat, fifty-nine cent dollars. Santa Claus, in the person of an American banker decides to float a loan for Taronia. In order to impress the American people with the soundness of such an investment, he brings along the beautiful Princess Catterina (Sylvia Sidney). No sooner has the lovely lady put her foot upon American soil than she is smitten with the beauty of the land...
...Attorney General is not a law maker but last week he made what amounted to a law. Lately Congress paved the U. S. statute books with a good intention when it enacted the Johnson Law, forbidding any U. S. citizen or firm to float loans or extend new credit to any foreign government in default on its debts to the U. S. Unfortunately the Administration itself did not know what that meant. Secretary Hull had to ask Attorney General Cummings whether: 1) a nation that had made token payments on its War debts was in default; 2) Soviet Russia...
...Berkeley's 30,000 schoolchildren are on part time. Next week a committee of architects and engineers is to present a rebuilding program which the Board estimates will cost $4,000,000. It has applied to the Public Works Administration for 30% of this expenditure, expects to float a bond issue for the rest...
...first Chris Olsen experienced difficulties. The density of the water destroyed perspective. He would often miss his canvas altogether. When he dropped brushes, they would float to the surface. Now he has mastered the knack of water perspective, uses a palette knife instead of a brush. To avoid chills, even in the warm Bahaman waters where he paints, he stays down only 20 minutes at a stretch, makes four or five trips a day. Sometimes Dr. Roy Waldo Miner, the Museum's Curator of Living Invertebrates, joins him, once took an under water cinema of him at work...
...float a total of $6,000,000,000 of securities the government will have to bring about relatively stable conditions in the money markets or else depend upon a popular drive like that of the Liberty Loan flotations in war-time...