Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheat from $1.25 per bu. down to 30¢, corn from 75¢ per bu. down to 20¢, cotton from 15¢ per Ib. down to 5¢, wool from 20¢ per Ib. down to 7¢" at a public cost of $500,000,000. But Senator Barkley's only concrete suggestions were to lend the farmers more money like "other forms of industry and finance" and to "take the Government out of the dubious adventure of speculation in farm products...
...40¢. This will affect only 400 of 12,500 U. S. cinema theatres. Squirming together in the same kettle of fish, cinema producers have lately realized that, to keep their own theatres open, they need the assistance of rival producers. Next year they will cooperate more than heretofore by lending high-priced players to each other to make sure the actors earn their salaries. Greta Garbo (MGM), who was planning to retire until last fortnight when she was reported to have lost $1,000,000 in the failure of the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, may make a picture...
Still to be acted on by the Senate were other Wagner proposals to: 1) authorize the R. F. C. to lend a billion dollars for self-amortizing public works by States; 2) float a $500,000,000 U. S. bond issue for a Federal program of public works. President Hoover favored No. 1, frowned on No. 2. Last week Secretary Mills, appearing before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, vainly argued for the Hoover proposal of R. F, C. loans to private industry. This the Committee rejected on the ground that it would result in unfair competition between industrial concerns financed...
...lend them the balance for such self-amortizing public works as toll bridges and tunnels. The yet-to-be-balanced Budget would not be disturbed by a bond issue...
...earmark $40,000,000 to stimulate agricultural exports; 4) lend $1,160,000,000 to industry on the strength of contracts for new production...