Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merchant bought the lamp from a wholesale house (which would presumably take a profit of at least 3% for itself) for $1. he must mark it up to $1.07. The price would nevertheless be stabilized within narrow limits. So that a store's stocks might not become frozen through the operation of this provision, bona fide clearance sales, disposal of perishable goods and discontinued lines, genuine liquidation, were permitted at any prices a merchant chose...
Died. Frank Henry Schrenk, 46, president of Philadelphia's North City Trust Co., chairman of the National Depositors' Committee seeking to release frozen accounts; by his own hand (pistol); in Philadelphia...
Thousands of closed banks remained a pothole in the road to Recovery. Last week the President was preparing to prod the R. F. C. on toward reopening them by buying their preferred stock, thereby releasing billions of frozen deposits as new purchasing power...
...their commercial credit. Why? Because they wanted to be completely liquid to qualify under the new deposit insurance system Jan. 1. Chairman Jones was deluged with advice as to how his R. F. C. could loosen its resources, break the credit deadlock. How to speed the reopening of banks frozen shut since winter was another topic of lively debate. Comptroller O'Connor reported his efforts to date. The President thought much more could be done with aggressive R. F. C. aid, in "hard" money. Secretary Wallace was wide open to suggestions to boost farm prices to new levels created...
...affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed by a drunken Cossack servant, rested a while at Verkhoyansk, coldest spot on earth. A fellow-traveller, Scientist Hertz, sent him some frozen flesh of a mammoth he had found. Talbot "ate it thoughtfully, for was it not about 8,000 years...