Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of the recoverable assets which President Roosevelt counts as a deduction from the debt may not be recovered. Such is the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund created out of the book profit of dollar devaluation. "Now that Mr. Morgenthau is going to stabilize foreign currencies with this fund, is it amiss to wonder whether it will be intact when he has closed his books...
...about 3⅔; billions a year. The New Deal reports ordinary expenditures, exclusive of relief and recovery, of less than 4 billions a year. In order to do so it has juggled its bookkeeping. One trick is to omit from the totals such items as pay ments to trust funds, certain District of Columbia expenditures, half the annual sinking fund payment for the Soldiers' Bonus. These items are furtively listed only in the appendix of the budget report. The apparent saving from this source has been $188,000,000 to $238,000,000 a year. "This," sarcastically declared...
...Scandinavia Dr. Parran also found that practically every case of syphilis was traced to the individual from whom it was contracted. In the U. S. only New York State tries to make a systematic search for the original source of infection. With his $8,000,000 Social Security fund, Dr. Parran is trying to make other states imitate New York and Scandinavia...
...Hall). Their rivalry reaches its climax after Big Steve has stolen Bill's girl (Binnie Barnes), when Big Steve climbs into the ring with a professional wrestler imported by Bill. The wrestler throws Big Steve who, it appears, has lost $400 contributed by fellow workers to a benefit fund, through betting on himself. When things look their blackest, Big Steve learns that his faithless sweetheart really gave the money to her old friend Bill, who bet it on the professional. Big Steve fishes the bearer of the news, Mrs. Finney's little boy, out of a slag...
...husband has had no trouble finding a market for his wares. Between 1924 and the end of last year Calvin Bullock sold $135,000,000 worth of fixed investment trusts, $78,000,000 worth of management trusts. One Bullock trust is Canadian Investment Fund, founded with a high-powered board of Canadian bigwigs in the days when the future of Canada looked considerably brighter than that of the U. S. Others include two series of Nation-Wide Securities, Carriers & General Corp., Dividend Shares, Bullock Fund...