Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rods. A Communist was shot dead at Strassfurt, a Fascist at Dortmund, another Communist at Duisburg. Street clashes grew so hot at Kiel that German sailors kept prudently in barracks, cancelled their announced "Parade in Celebration of the 13th Anniversary of the Scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow." Policemen walked their beats in pairs...
...document on Banker Morgan's desk. It was a power-of-attorney from the Deutsche Bank to buy $200,000,000 worth of U. S. bonds. Quickly James Stillman and other bankers were called, a syndicate formed, $62,000,000 of bonds bought from the Treasury. Stocks rose, the flow of gold was halted, trade began to revive as word spread that the emergency had been...
...last week came to $70,000,000, making the total for the past six weeks about $280,000,000. Although bankers knew that the Federal Reserve could lose some $1,200,000.000 in gold before reaching the legal minimum they became afraid that the continued alarm might increase the flow, start a real "flight from the dollar." Likewise they were afraid that it would renew hoarding...
...broken by any single government undertaking. That can only be done with the co-operation of business, banking, industry and agriculture in conjunction with the government. . . . We cannot squander ourselves into prosperity. . . . What is needed is the return of confidence and a capital market through which credit will flow in the thousand rills with its result of employment and increased prices. . . . Such a program as the huge Federal loans for 'public works' is a fearful price to pay in putting a few thousand men temporarily at work." Setting forth his own program point-by- point, President Hoover reiterated...
...last week, when it stood at 86?. Still a critical factor is the prodigious East Texas field, now 20 months old. Its production is controlled by the Texas Railroad Commission. Last week 160 new wells were completed in this field, bringing the total to 5,442. Its average daily flow of 333,000 bbl. compares to 363,000 bbl. six months...