Word: floating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...financial reconstruction of Hungary on a plan similar to that adopted early this year in the case of Austria. The gist of the scheme is that Hungary is to turn over the revenue from customs and State monopolies to the League, in return for which the League will float a loan of 250,000,000 gold corona and establish budgetary equilibrium by June 30, 1926. The scheme is to go to Budapest for ratification and is to be discussed by a sub-committee of the League and representatives of the Little Entente in London during the month of January...
...Knock & Kuhne" because of the common difficulty in pronouncing its partners' names) its long-established business in German securities and exchange became so unprofitable that the house was compelled to enter new and previously untried financial fields. With very faulty but not uncommon judgment, the house began to float petroleum securities in the boom of 1919-20. Heavy losses were sustained in Simms Petroleum, which took a greater toll from supposed "Wall Street insiders" than from the general public. The last venture was in Mexican Seaboard, whose sharp drop was the occasion of the firm's insolvency. Rumors...
...deal not in news but in highly flavored comment. They represent some man, some group of men, some cause. Certain of them are openly subsidized by the Government. But the Government isn't the only keeper of the French press. It is said that any nation which wants to float a loan in France must first send checks to the French dailies. It is known that the Tzar's Government had on its payroll the most respectable Paris papers. And during the Versailles Conference it is asserted that the Italian Government subsidized several French journals to support its claim...
...which he had any recollection was being in the water. In the light of subsequent developments it seems fairly certain that the time referred to was on the night of his disappearance when he swam up the Charles river from Weld boathouse after leaving his clothes on the float. Physicians are of the opinion that Clapp had been suffering from amnesia, a disease which affects the brain in such a way as to render the memory a total blank, and this explanation seems sufficient to account for the irregularity of his movements thereafter...
Austria is being lent 130 million dollars, of which J. P. Morgan & Co. will float 25 million in America. Preliminary arrangements were completed in Paris by Thomas W. Lamont, a Morgan partner...