Word: investments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Ephraim Burchfield, 41. a tailor's son from Ash tabula Harbor, Ohio. In his childhood Burchfield found nothing so fascinating as tumble-down houses, freight trains, railroad tracks. Today most up-to-date museums have Burchfields.. Not so spectacular a draughtsman as Benton, Burchfield manages to invest his paintings with a calm if somewhat dismal dignity and an exceptionally acute feeling for light and space. He lives in an eight-room frame house outside Buffalo, N. Y. with his wife and five children, amuses himself by tending his garden and building frames for his pictures...
Turning to his latest statement, Mr. Baker pointed out that investments in Government bonds had jumped $22,000,000 in twelve months?standing at $77,000,000. During the year the bank had bid for or subscribed to no less than $1,396,000,000 of long-term and short-term Government issues, for its own and its customers' accounts. Summing up the experience of bankers big & little. Chairman Baker remarked: "With the small demand for credit from our customers, it was necessary to invest a greater amount in securities...
...know I am trustee of the estate left you by your father. It is very difficult to invest money safely in these times. I should be much obliged if you would answer the following questions so that I can administer the estate to your best advantage as beneficiary: Do you intend further to devalue the dollar? Do you intend to continue Government spending to the point where serious inflation will follow? What do you intend to do about silver...
...Daily Bread (Viking). For the average Hollywood producer, Depression furnished a number of tedious gags, a few new turns for old plots. But it failed to invest the cinema with much New Deal sentiment, much sense of economic ferment. This fact has long rankled in the impatient mind of thick-lipped, shock-haired King Vidor...
...silver just as the price of wheat would tend to rise if the Government locked up 200,000,000 bu. Moreover the citizens who last week owned 200,000,000 oz. of silver will, after they have given it up, receive $100,000,000 in cash to spend or invest. This will have an inflationary effect like all the other hundreds of millions that the Government is paying shipyards to build battleships, farmers to reduce crops, laborers to erect public works, jobless to stay alive. So the nationalization of silver is inflationary but only a thimbleful in a big bucket...