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...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...
There is no limit to the quantity of bonds which the government can float, simply by virtue of the control which it can exercise over the Federal Reserve System through the enactment of some simple legislation. If it became necessary, for example, a slight change in the existing laws relating to the Federal Reserve System would make possible the direct sale of large quantities of government bonds to the Federal Reserve banks against the creation of deposits in the account of the government...
Under the Empire's present debt agreement Britain is scheduled to pay the U. S. roughly $11,000,000,000 in annuities running until 1984. The lump sum Sir Frederick reputedly has in mind is $1,000,000,000. If he finds that Wall Street cannot float so large a bond issue, the lump may have to be smaller. "The best solution, of course," correspondents were told by a candid Exchequer functionary, "would be cancellation of the entire debt...