Word: ments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never a maker of anything so risky as predictions, and always a firm believer that the Gates of Hell could never prevail against sound money, Clément Moret entered the eclipse of Honorary Governor after setting Paris the kind of example Paris respects. Amazingly few years ago he was living with his wife and children in a flat so modest that the rent was but 1,500 francs a year. Soon afterward great Raymond Poincaré (considered by his worst parliamentary enemies "abnormally incorruptible") declared that Finance Ministry Clerk Clément Moret was "abnormally honest," had him sent...
...program, including Government-built low-cost housing, to prime the pump of heavy industry which refused to be primed by the first $3,300,000,000 appropriated last year. Such a program was discussed about the White House in astronomical terms of billions of dollars. Prime point was govern-ment spending on such a scale as the country had never before dreamed...
From the first, Housing Administrator Moffett met obstacles. The campaign mapped out for him called for: 1) modernization of 13,000,000 buildings in the U. S. ; 2) stimulation of a new building boom. Since both aims were to be accomplished without direct use of govern ment money, Mr. Moffett calculated that the Housing Administration would not need to hire more than 500 employes. On some days during the past month as many as 6,000 jobhunters haunted his offices. Politicians pulled wires on every side. By last week he finally had 250 carefully chosen employes, including his assistant. Albert...
...already know. Confining itself chiefly to a de scription of how the company operates, it did reveal that dividends of from 20% to 50% were paid between 1910 and 1930. In 1930-32 Hudson's Bay Co. lost money, but last year, on a total Canadian invest ment of $27,337,000, it showed a profit...
Hudson's Bay Co. by no means gave up fur trading when it entered the depart ment store field. In 1931-32 its fur catch was almost 4,500,000 pelts worth $10,000,000. It maintains 224 fur trading posts, has lately been developing silver fox farms, owns a large block of stock in the Montreal trading subsidiary of Revillon, Inc., famed Paris and Manhattan furrier...