Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheap and shoddy to their constituents who had learned to expect bigger and finer things from the generous New Deal. Unexpressed, but probably more potent, was the fact that Cotton Senators knew that cotton mills and speculators in the South who had bought cotton at 11? would suffer a loss if AAA moved its price peg down 3?. Two days later, anxious to send Congress packing. President Roosevelt offered to lend 10? instead of 9?, and Congress adjourned in a flare of fireworks staged by Senator Huey Long, unassisted...
...Last week a special Senate subcommittee investigating the price-pegging cotton and wheat operations of the late Federal Farm Board disclosed a loss of $344,000,000 (69%) of its $500,000,000 revolving fund in trying to buck the law of supply & demand...
...battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight of an umpire with a red flag from two belligerent cows, the capture of Hill 300 by the 27th Divi sion's swift advance and its subsequent loss because of: i) failure of communica tions, 2) an attack of real ptomaine poisoning which completely incapacitated two batteries...
...along the Blue Nile which is fed from Tana, Ethiopia's great lake. Tana is so placed among rocky crags that a little earnest dynamiting would divert its precious waters from the Blue Nile toward Ethiopian plains now dry but capable of becoming a second fruitful Egypt. The loss to British investors in the Sudan would be colossal, that to British prestige in Africa irretrievable. Last week sword-handy Britons of the more resolute school, such as General Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, brimmed with hostile advice. At the very least a British force...
Every Belgian with a fixed income was quietly robbed by Professor Paul van Zeeland, the Kingdom's unsmiling New Deal Premier, when he devalued the National currency (TIME, April 8). This public loss left the Treasury with a public gain of 3,500,000,000 francs ($118,000,000) in the value of its gold stocks. Designating this last week as "profit," Premier-Professor van Zeeland ordered Minister of Public Works Henri de Man to spend the entire sum during the next three years on making work for Belgium's jobless...