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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consumers are holding back because of high rates, many financial men from coast to coast are dead set against cheaper interest. They argue that it does not create as much demand for loans as reducing reserve requirements to make more loanable funds available. Besides, say bankers, lower rates mean trouble on the profit and loss statement...
Jones: What do you mean? Sounds like you've been spending too much time on Madison Avenue...
Smith: What I mean is-well, pollsters like Sam Lubell have discovered that most people aren't very disturbed by the depression and, God knows, a lot of businessmen think it will be over in six months or so without getting much worse. You know-not really cutting deep, not sincere...
...double stimulus to the borrower's economy. As a device for the complete internationalization of foreign aid, however, its effectiveness is doubtful. Russia is not a member of the World Bank, and therefore the transfer of United States aid effort to the IBRD and the I.D.A. would simply mean that aid competition would now pit the Western alliance (instead of the United States alone) against Russia...
...friends of Jim Patton will thank you for your recognition, even if unenthusiastic, of the N.F.U. president. I am sure your Ivy League, Rockefeller Plaza editors did not mean the snide subtitles and innuendoes of resentment against the wealth and success of the N.F.U. and the man who has had the vision and integrity to fight for them, and whose only sin is that he has been steadfast to democratic ideals...