Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the ward upstairs, where they can talk over cases. Ah! My lunch! Well, so long. Hope' you can make up the time you wasted here. See that fellow over there? Well, he'd sell his soul for this piece of steak. Mmmm. But he's on a liquid diet. Broke his law at the Cotton Club...
There is nothing to be done about the general situation, he realizes, the flood gates of 3.2 per cent beer will doubtless soon be opened upon the whole nation. But in Cambridge, with a faculty and a student body supposedly versed in liquid lore, a complete return to the era of lager beer and sawdust floors can be averted. The Vagabond has a definite ideal as to how things should be around the Square after repeal. In the matter of public drinking he acknowledges his debt to German and English sources: there ought to be at least one Biergarten, right...
...Washington that one new bank should be formed in Detroit, the big depositors of the old banks to put up $5,000,000 of capital, the R. F. C. to buy $20,000,000 of preferred stock, the new bank to take over 50% of the deposits and the liquid assets of the old banks. It struck Detroit's businessmen as ruinous to liquidate their two old banks, but they regarded the word from Washington as an ultimatum. They despatched a flight of telegrams in protest* and convened to obey. Meetings began. Alfred P. Sloan...
State v. National. In the Senate two objections were raised to this emergency measure: 1) only in New York City were banks sufficiently liquid to be benefited by its provisions; 2) state banks not members of the Federal Reserve system and totaling some 11,000 would be put out of business altogether by the relief advantages given their competitors...
...survival of an almost medieval and perfectly natural belief that since land is tangible it must be a safe investment. The best proof of the fallacy of the idea is the fact that in Boston, where few real estate loans have been granted, the banks are absolutely liquid: within a few hours notice nearly every bank in Boston could pay every cent of its debts and still be solvent...