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Word: liquidating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the average person can tell nothing from the average bank balance sheet. Another is that a person capable of telling at a glance what a bank's general position is usually realizes that only the people within a bank can tell whether or not it is liquid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Banks, Third Quarter | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...Bank of New York, old, much patronized by dowagers, is unusually frank. Its statement of resources provides for 21 items and even separates coin from paper money. Yet a sum of ten millions includes all "public securities." How much of the amount is in Governments, how much in less liquid State and Municipals is not revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Banks, Third Quarter | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

Supplementary material on the programme is "The Girl Habit" with Charlie Ruggles. It is incomprehensible why an actor who has made whatever reputation he has as an inebriate should, when the time comes to be featured, play without the liquid illusion. "The Girl Habit", despite spasmodic excellences of pantomime, proves that Ruggles is not sufficiently endowed to carry a picture single-handed...

Author: By B Oc., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/13/1931 | See Source »

...smokescreen was made, as usual, with titanium tetrachloride. It is carried in liquid form, in tanks specially installed in the airplane. When the pilot operates a valve, air is forced into the tank by the speed of the plane in flight, the pressure expelling the Ti CL 4 through a nozzle at the rear. On contact with the atmosphere, the liquid is changed to a cloudlike vapor. Under "unusual" atmospheric conditions, it is said, the tetrachloride joins with moisture in the air to form hydroscopic smoke particles containing hydrochloric acid which may damage leather or rubber compositions, bright dyes, cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Smokescreen | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...week I asked a banker to loan me $6,000 to be applied on the building of a new home. The banker threw up his hands and said: 'Oh, Senator, we can't make any loans at present. While we are sound, we must remain in a liquid condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: That Spells Depression | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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