Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrewd Banker Warburg gained a reputation as a good prophet, has not lost it by premature optimism. Last week he called the business cycle "a subject for psychologists rather than for economists," said the Government could serve a better purpose by squashing booms rather than vainly attempting to halt depressions. He too denounced tariffs, artificial attempts to fix prices...
...halt the flight of capital the German Reichsbank has had to put its discount rate up. This move has been successful. The flight has ceased. But with the rate 2% in Manhattan, 3% in London and 2% in Paris it was 5% last week in Berlin...
...found when slaughtered to have had his hide lifted. Said Chief John R. Mohler of the Federal Animal Industry Bureau: "When such malpractices as these get to the point where our boys and girls, the farmers of tomorrow, begin to find them accepted, it is time to call a halt...
...four great sugar bowls of the world are the U. S., Cuba, Java, Europe. Last week representatives of these bowls were striving to halt the great stream of production which has filled their bowls to overflowing, has taken sweet profit out of the industry...
Last week the New York Stock Exchange and New York Curb Exchange suspended for insolvency the firm of Bauer, Pogue, Pond & Vivian-the seventh such suspension since the bear market began.* Although the firm was of fair size, the action affected only a few stocks, did not halt last week's stock-market rally. As is customary, Senior Partner Frederick R. Bauer announced that if his firm's affairs were liquidated in an orderly manner, all creditors could be paid, a residue left for the partners. The strong market gave him a more pleasing background than other recent...